11-letter words containing w, s, d
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- dishwashing — the act of washing dishes.
- 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.
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- don't knows — people who have not reached a definite opinion on a subject, esp as a response to a questionnaire
- dorset down — a breed of stocky hornless sheep having a broad head, dark face, and a dense fleece: kept for lamb production
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- 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.
- downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- 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.
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- 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.
- east meadow — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- goods wagon — a heavy railroad freight car.
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.