11-letter words containing w, e, r, d
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hooded crow — a European crow, Corvus corone cornix, having a gray body and black head, wings, and tail.
- hoodie crow — a subspecies of the carrion crow, Corvus corone cornix, that has a grey body and black head, wings, and tail
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- intertwined — Twist or twine together.
- interviewed — Simple past tense and past participle of interview.
- interweaved — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- inward dive — a dive in which the athlete stands with back to the water, takes off, and rotates toward the board.
- irish tweed — a sturdy woolen fabric of light warp and dark filling, made in Ireland and used in suits and coats.
- jayawardene — Junius Richard. 1906–96, Sri Lankan statesman; prime minister (1977–78) and first president of Sri Lanka (1978–89)
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- kite winder — a triangular winder on a staircase.
- lake edward — a lake in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Great Rift Valley: empties through the Semliki River into Lake Albert. Area: about 2150 sq km (830 sq miles)
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- low-powered — having little power or capacity
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
- meadow bird — the bobolink.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- merry widow — a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless brassiere and short corset with attached garters.
- microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
- milk powder — dry milk.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
- new bedford — a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.
- new granada — a former Spanish viceroyalty in NW South America, comprising the present republics of Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
- new ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
- new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
- new-for-old — (of insurance) issued on the principle that claims will be based on the cost of replacing old damaged, destroyed, or lost items with brand new items
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- news reader — (messaging) A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
- news vendor — a person who sells newspapers or periodicals.
- newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
- newsvendors — Plural form of newsvendor.
- olde worlde — Olde worlde is used to describe places and things that are or seem to be from an earlier period of history, and that look interesting or attractive.
- on a downer — If you are on a downer, you are feeling depressed and without hope.