11-letter words containing w, r, s
- brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
- brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- coneflowers — Plural form of coneflower.
- contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
- cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
- copywriters — Plural form of copywriter.
- corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
- corn whisky — whisky made from maize
- cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
- course work — Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade.
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- 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
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- 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.
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- cross swell — a movement of the sea at right angles to a major current
- cross wires — cross hair (def 1).
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crow's feet — Crow's feet are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.