11-letter words containing w, p, l
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- wire-puller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
- wool sponge — a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
- world point — (in relativity) a point in space-time, specified by three space coordinates and a time coordinate. Compare event (def 4).
- world power — a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- wrist plate — a platelike part of a mechanism, oscillating in its own plane, to which links or rods are attached by pins.
- yellow pine — any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
- yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).