11-letter words containing w, p, l
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- split wings — wings (of an artificial fly) that are dressed cocked up and separated into a V shape
- spotted owl — a dark-brown owl (Strix occidentalis, family Strigidae) with scattered white spots and dark eyes, sometimes seen in the forests of W North America: it is an endangered species
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- swiss lapis — cracked quartz, stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- townspeople — residents of a town
- twelve step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
- twelve-step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- 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.
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
- wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
- wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- war surplus — equipment, supplies, etc., originally used by or manufactured for the armed forces, but disposed of cheaply as surplus or obsolete: He made his fortune in war surplus.
- water plant — a plant that grows in water.
- well-copied — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-padded — (of a person) corpulent; portly; fat
- well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- well-played — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- well-priced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
- well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
- wellreputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- wellsprings — Plural form of wellspring.
- welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
- wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
- wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- whippletree — whiffletree.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.