11-letter words containing w, e, t, n
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- disentwined — Simple past tense and past participle of disentwine.
- disentwines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disentwine.
- dorset down — a breed of stocky hornless sheep having a broad head, dark face, and a dense fleece: kept for lamb production
- down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
- down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
- down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
- downtrodden — tyrannized over; oppressed: the downtrodden plebeians of ancient Rome.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dwindlement — the condition of decreasing or diminishing
- earthenware — pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
- elbow joint — the joint between the upper arm and the forearm, formed by the junction of the radius and ulna with the humerus
- embowelment — a disembowelment
- embowerment — the act of embowering
- empowerment — The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
- entranceway — A way into a place or thing, esp. a doorway or corridor at the entrance to a building.
- entwinement — A situation of being entwined; an entanglement.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
- gentlewomen — Plural form of gentlewoman.
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- get down to — start
- get in with — start to associate with
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hence with! — away with!
- honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
- 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.
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- in the wild — Animals that live in the wild live in a free and natural state and are not looked after by people.
- in the wind — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.