11-letter words containing w, e, r
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- 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.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- 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
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- camera crew — a group of people who are involved in the operation of a film camera
- 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.
- carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charityware — careware
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- clear water — a city in W Florida.
- 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