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11-letter words containing w, e, s, t

  • west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
  • west indian — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
  • west indies — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
  • west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
  • west monroe — a city in N Louisiana.
  • west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
  • west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
  • west seneca — a city in NW New York, near Buffalo.
  • west sussex — a county in SE England. 778 sq. mi. (2015 sq. km).
  • west-facing — orientated towards the west
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • westchester — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • westermarck — Edward Alexander [ed-werd al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Finnish ed-vahrd ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈɛd wərd ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Finnish ˈɛd vɑrd ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.
  • westernised — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
  • westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
  • westernizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of westernize.
  • westernmost — most western or westerly; farthest west.
  • westerville — a town in central Ohio.
  • westminster — a central borough (officially a city) of Greater London, England: Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace.
  • westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
  • wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.
  • wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
  • what's more — in addition
  • whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
  • wheat sheaf — a sheaf of wheat
  • whereabouts — about where? where?
  • whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whistle pig — a woodchuck.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white goods — household appliances
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white sound — white noise.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
  • white stick — a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind
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