11-letter words containing w, i, s, e
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- 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.
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- middle west — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- new english — Modern English.
- new realism — neorealism.
- 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
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- openwindows — (operating system) A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- 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.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
- sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.