11-letter words containing w, i, t
- tiggywinkle — a gene found in fish and belonging to a family of genes known as the Hedgehog family
- 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.
- time switch — Electronics
- time waster — If you say that someone or something is a time waster, you mean that they cause you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.
- tin whistle — A tin whistle is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a metal pipe with holes. You play the tin whistle by blowing into it. Tin whistles make a high sound and are often used in folk music, for example Irish music.
- to give way — If an object that is supporting something gives way, it breaks or collapses, so that it can no longer support that thing.
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- to the wide — completely
- to the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
- to windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
- tonic water — drink: carbonated water
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- toxic waste — waste material that can be harmful or deadly to living creatures and the environment
- 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.
- tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
- train wreck — an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
- trelliswork — latticework.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- trifle with — treat frivolously
- trip switch — an electric switch arranged to interrupt a circuit suddenly and disconnect power from a running machine so that the machine is stopped
- trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
- troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
- twaite shad — a European shad
- tweet thief — a person who steals another’s tweets on the Twitter website
- tweetcation — a short break from posting on the Twitter website
- twelfthtide — the season of Twelfth Night and Twelfth Day.
- twelve-inch — a phonograph record twelve inches in diameter, especially one with two or more remixes of the same song.
- twenty-five — a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.
- twenty-nine — a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.
- twi-nighter — a twi-night doubleheader.
- twig blight — blight affecting the twigs of a plant.
- twill weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are woven over and under two or more warp yarns, producing a characteristic diagonal pattern.
- twin cities — Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minn.
- twin-bedded — A twin-bedded room has two single beds.
- twin-engine — having two engines of equal power as prime movers: a twin-engine airplane.
- twist drill — a drill with one or more deep helical grooves in the body.
- two-pointer — a shot from inside or on the three point line, worth two points if it is made
- typewriting — the act or skill of using a typewriter.
- typewritten — A typewritten document has been typed on a typewriter or word processor.
- underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
- underwriter — a person or company that underwrites policies of insurance or carries on insurance as a business.
- unweetingly — in an ignorant manner
- unweighting — the action of minimizing the pressure of body weight on a ski before a turn by briefly bending down or straightening up
- unwithering — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- unwithstood — not opposed or resisted; not withstood
- unwitnessed — lacking the signature of a witness: an unwitnessed legal document.
- unwittingly — inadvertent; unintentional; accidental: His insult, though unwitting, pained her.
- vent window — (on an automobile) a small, pivoting window fitted into a main side window to provide draft-free ventilation.