11-letter words containing w, s, a
- what's what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- wheat sheaf — a sheaf of wheat
- wheelchairs — Plural form of wheelchair.
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
- white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
- white shark — great white shark.
- white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
- white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
- white toast — toasted white bread
- white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
- whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
- whitewasher — One who, or that which, whitewashes.
- whitewashes — Plural form of whitewash.
- whitewaters — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- whittuesday — the day following Whitmonday.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesalers — Plural form of wholesaler.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- whoremaster — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
- wild radish — another name for white charlock
- wild weasel — a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.
- wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- willstatter — Richard [rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1872–1942, German chemist: Nobel prize 1915.
- wind-shaken — affected by windshake.
- windjammers — Plural form of windjammer.
- windlestrae — thin or weak-looking
- windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
- window sash — the frame holding the pane of a window.
- window seat — a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- wisecracked — Simple past tense and past participle of wisecrack.
- wisecracker — a smart or facetious remark.
- wishy-washy — lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.