11-letter words containing w, o, r, i, e
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- storywriter — a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- 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 the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
- tonic water — drink: carbonated water
- 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.
- 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.
- two-pointer — a shot from inside or on the three point line, worth two points if it is made
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vine grower — a person who cultivates grapevines
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weight room — weight-training gym
- welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- whichsoever — Whichever.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- 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.
- 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 frost — a heavy coating of frost.
- white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
- white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
- white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
- whitethroat — any of several small songbirds having a throat that is white, especially an Old World warbler, Sylvia communis.
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- widowerhood — The state or period of being a widower.
- widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
- wiggle room — room to maneuver; latitude.
- wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.