11-letter words containing w, r, a
- bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
- cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- 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
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- camera crew — a group of people who are involved in the operation of a film camera
- camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
- camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
- carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- 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
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- clear water — a city in W Florida.
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
- cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
- contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer