11-letter words containing w, p
- typewriting — the act or skill of using a typewriter.
- typewritten — A typewritten document has been typed on a typewriter or word processor.
- under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- up and down — moving in or related to a direction that is up or is regarded as up: the up elevator; the up train traveling north; the up platform of a railroad station.
- 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.
- up-and-down — moving alternately up and down: the up-and-down swing of levers; an up-and-down tune.
- upside down — with the upper part undermost.
- 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.
- wage packet — regular pay from an employer
- wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
- 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.
- warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
- warming pan — a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.
- warsaw pact — an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.
- waspishness — The quality of being waspish.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
- water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
- water paint — a pigment, as watercolor, in which water is used as the vehicle.
- water pipit — a common, sparrow-sized pipit, Anthus spinoletta, of the Northern Hemisphere.
- water plant — a plant that grows in water.
- water poppy — a Brazilian, aquatic plant, Hydrocleys nymphoides, having yellow, poppylike flowers.
- water power — the power of water used, or capable of being used, to drive machinery, turbines, etc.
- water vapor — a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. Compare steam (def 2).
- waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
- waterscapes — Plural form of waterscape.
- waterspouts — Plural form of waterspout.
- waxed paper — Waxed paper is the same as wax paper.
- weather map — a map or chart showing weather conditions over a wide area at a particular time, compiled from simultaneous observations at different places.
- web spinner — any of several slender insects, of the order Embioptera, that nest in colonies in silken webs spun with secretions from the enlarged front legs.
- weeping ivy — a climbing plant, Ficus benjamina, of the fig family, grown as a greenhouse or house plant for its graceful glossy leaves on slender drooping branches
- 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.