11-letter words containing w, e, t, r, o
- 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.
- downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
- downtrodden — tyrannized over; oppressed: the downtrodden plebeians of ancient Rome.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- drill tower — a structure, usually of concrete and steel, that resembles a building and is used by firefighters for practicing and improving firefighting techniques.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
- embowerment — the act of embowering
- empowerment — The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
- equatorward — toward the equator
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- 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
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- get nowhere — make no progress
- 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.
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- 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 area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- 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.
- growth rate — increase per unit
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- heart-whole — not in love.
- home waters — territorial waters
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
- ivory tower — a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
- ivory-white — of a creamy or yellowish white in color.
- know better — be sufficiently wise
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- littleworth — worthless; of little value
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lower egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form