11-letter words containing w, i, t, o, l
- third world — the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty.
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
- trelliswork — latticework.
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- violet wood — kingwood.
- vowel point — any of a group of auxiliary symbols, as small lines and dots, placed above or below consonant symbols to indicate vowels in a writing system, as that of Hebrew or Arabic, in which vowels are otherwise not written.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- weight loss — slimming
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
- white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
- white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
- white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- whitlowwort — any of several small, tufted plants belonging to the genus Paronychia, of the pink family, native to temperate and warm regions, having opposite or whorled leaves and tiny, greenish flowers.
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- windowlight — windowpane (def 1).
- withholding — to hold back; restrain or check.
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- world point — (in relativity) a point in space-time, specified by three space coordinates and a time coordinate. Compare event (def 4).
- world title — the winner's position in an international competition
- wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.