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11-letter words containing w, i, d, e, s

  • mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
  • news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
  • old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
  • openwindows — (operating system)   A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
  • radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
  • rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
  • sacred writ — Scripture.
  • screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
  • second wind — the return of ease in breathing after exhaustion caused by continued physical exertion, as in running.
  • self-willed — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
  • slow-witted — mentally slow or dull; slow in comprehension and thinking.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • spider wasp — any of certain wasps, especially of the family Pompilidae, that provision their nests with paralyzed spiders.
  • stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • sweet cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • swivel-eyed — having or displaying extreme or fanatical views
  • the swedish — the people of Sweden collectively
  • the windies — the international cricket team of the West Indies
  • thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • twaite shad — a European shad
  • unwitnessed — lacking the signature of a witness: an unwitnessed legal document.
  • upside down — with the upper part undermost.
  • wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
  • waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
  • wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
  • wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
  • wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • ward sister — a senior nurse in charge of a ward
  • water slide — flume
  • waterslides — Plural form of waterslide.
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