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11-letter words containing w, r, i

  • fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
  • ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
  • gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
  • ginger wine — an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water
  • graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
  • grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
  • grey willow — a species of willow, Salix cinerea, with greenish-grey catkins
  • grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
  • ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
  • growth ring — annual ring.
  • growthiness — the quality of being growthy
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
  • handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
  • handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
  • handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
  • hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
  • hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
  • heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
  • highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
  • highwrought — extremely worked-up or excited
  • hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
  • hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
  • homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
  • hoodie crow — a subspecies of the carrion crow, Corvus corone cornix, that has a grey body and black head, wings, and tail
  • hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
  • housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
  • ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
  • include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
  • ingrownness — the quality of having ingrown
  • inner woman — a woman's mind, soul, or nature
  • interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
  • intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
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