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11-letter words containing w, e, r, o

  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
  • caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
  • cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
  • cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
  • chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
  • chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
  • clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
  • clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
  • coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
  • coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
  • cold shower — shower: in cold water
  • color wheel — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
  • condo owner — A condo owner is the owner of a condominium.
  • coneflowers — Plural form of coneflower.
  • cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
  • copper wire — a type of wire made from copper used in electrics
  • copywriters — Plural form of copywriter.
  • copywronged — copybroke
  • cordwainery — Shoemaking.
  • corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
  • cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
  • counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
  • counterglow — gegenschein.
  • counterview — an opposite or opposing view
  • counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
  • counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
  • countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
  • course work — Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade.
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
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