11-letter words containing w, r, s
- crow's-foot — a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- 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 chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- 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.
- 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.
- dockworkers — Plural form of dockworker.
- dorset down — a breed of stocky hornless sheep having a broad head, dark face, and a dense fleece: kept for lamb production
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
- downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
- downriggers — Plural form of downrigger.
- downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
- dowsing rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- dowsing-rod — Also called dowsing rod [dou-zing] /ˈdaʊ zɪŋ/ (Show IPA). divining rod.
- draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- draw straws — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
- draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left
- drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
- drawstrings — Plural form of drawstring.
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dust bowler — a person who is a native or resident of a dust bowl region.
- dwarf shoot — a very thin lateral branch in certain trees.
- dwarf sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus copallina, of the cashew family, native to the eastern U.S., having shiny, pinnate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of red, berrylike fruit.
- dyer's-weed — any of various plants yielding dyes, as the weld, Reseda luteola, the dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, or the woad, Isatis tinctoria.
- easter week — the week that begins with Easter Day and ends the following Saturday
- ecowarriors — Plural form of ecowarrior.
- elsewhither — Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.