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11-letter words containing w, r, i, t, n

  • winterreise — a song cycle (1827) by Franz Schubert, consisting of 24 songs set to poems of Wilhelm Müller.
  • wintersweet — a shrub, Chimonanthus praecox, native to China, having large leaves and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
  • with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • withdrawing — Present participle of withdraw.
  • witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
  • withershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
  • witherspoonJohn, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
  • withindoors — into or inside the house.
  • withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
  • woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.
  • workstation — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
  • world point — (in relativity) a point in space-time, specified by three space coordinates and a time coordinate. Compare event (def 4).
  • worthington — a town in central Ohio.
  • wrist joint — articulation between arm and hand
  • writing pad — a book containing pieces of paper for you to write on
  • wrong thing — (jargon)   A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
  • zwitterions — Plural form of zwitterion.
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