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

  • dull-witted — mentally slow; stupid.
  • dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • dwindlement — the condition of decreasing or diminishing
  • elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
  • elsewhither — Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.
  • entwinement — A situation of being entwined; an entanglement.
  • fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
  • fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
  • fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
  • fillet weld — a weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle.
  • firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
  • first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
  • fixed-width — record
  • flake white — lead white.
  • flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
  • free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
  • freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
  • fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
  • get in with — start to associate with
  • get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
  • get wind of — hear rumours of
  • get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
  • ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
  • ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
  • gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
  • growthiness — the quality of being growthy
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
  • hawaii time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
  • head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
  • heavyweight — heavy in weight.
  • heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • hence with! — away with!
  • hepplewhite — George, died 1786, English furniture designer and cabinetmaker.
  • hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
  • hollow tile — tile (def 5).
  • house white — a white wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • in bed with — in collusion with
  • in the know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
  • in the swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
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