11-letter words containing w, r, i
- 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
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- citron wood — the wood of the citron tree
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.
- 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
- copper wire — a type of wire made from copper used in electrics
- copywriters — Plural form of copywriter.
- copywriting — a writer of copy, especially for advertisements or publicity releases.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- corn whisky — whisky made from maize
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- 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
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cross wires — cross hair (def 1).
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown point — town in NE N.Y., on Lake Champlain: site of a fort important in the French and Indian & the Revolutionary wars: pop. 2,100
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
- digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.
- dinnerwares — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
- dirty power — Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits).
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discrowning — Present participle of discrown.
- disempowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disempower.
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
- disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
- downgrading — Present participle of downgrade.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.