11-letter words containing w, i
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
- broken wind — heaves
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
- carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- catchweight — of or relating to a contest in which normal weight categories have been waived by agreement
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- cavity wall — A cavity wall is a wall that consists of two separate walls with a space between them. Cavity walls help to keep out noise and cold.
- chain wheel — sprocket (def 1).
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charityware — careware
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chittamwood — American smoke tree.
- citron wood — the wood of the citron tree
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.