11-letter words containing w, r, i
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
- stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
- still water — a part of a stream that is level or where the level of inclination is so slight that no current is visible.
- storywriter — a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
- straightway — straightaway.
- strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- swear blind — to assert emphatically
- swearing in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- swearing-in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
- sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
- sweet cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- sweet spire — a shrub, Itea virginica, of the eastern and southern U.S., having showy, fragrant, white flowers.
- swine fever — hog cholera.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingletree — a whiffletree.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
- swiss chard — chard.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- sword-point — the point of a sword
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- therewithal — together with that; in addition to that.
- therewithin — in or within that
- third wheel — odd person out among three people
- third world — the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty.
- thitherward — Also, thitherward [thith -er-werd, th ith -] /ˈθɪð ər wərd, ˈðɪð-/ (Show IPA), thitherwards. to or toward that place or point; there.
- throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- time waster — If you say that someone or something is a time waster, you mean that they cause you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- to the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
- to windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- tonic water — drink: carbonated water
- trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.