11-letter words containing w, r, i, t, n
- vietnam war — a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- wagon train — a train of wagons and horses, as one carrying military supplies or transporting settlers in the westward migration.
- wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- war cabinet — government wartime committee
- war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
- warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
- warrantying — an act or an instance of warranting; assurance; authorization; warrant.
- wasserstein — Wendy, 1950–2006, U.S. playwright.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- water inlet — opening designed to let water in
- water paint — a pigment, as watercolor, in which water is used as the vehicle.
- water snail — Archimedes' screw.
- water wings — an inflatable contrivance shaped like a pair of wings, usually worn under the arms to keep the body afloat while one swims or learns to swim.
- waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
- waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
- weingartner — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- west berlin — Irving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
- west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
- westernised — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of westernize.
- westminster — a central borough (officially a city) of Greater London, England: Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace.
- whiteprints — Plural form of whiteprint.
- whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
- whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
- wienerwurst — Vienna sausage.
- win through — succeed despite obstacles
- wind sprint — a sprint, usually run several times in succession as part of a conditioning program, to develop an athlete's wind, speed, and endurance.
- windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.
- windlestrae — thin or weak-looking
- windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
- windsor tie — a wide, soft necktie of black silk, tied at the neck in a loose bow.
- wine expert — specialist or connoisseur of wines
- wine waiter — a waiter in a restaurant who is responsible for serving wine
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- winter moth — a brown geometrid moth, Operophtera brumata, of which the male is often seen against lighted windows in winter, the female being wingless
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter park — a city in E Florida.
- winter rose — Christmas rose.
- winter wren — (in the Western Hemisphere) a small wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, of coniferous forests.
- winterberry — any of several North American hollies of the genus Ilex, having red berries that are persistent through the winter.
- wintercress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- wintergreen — Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.
- winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
- winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
- winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.