11-letter words containing w, s, d
- well-versed — highly experienced, practiced, or skilled; very knowledgeable; learned: He is a well-versed scholar on the subject of biblical literature.
- wendy house — a child's playhouse.
- wensleydale — a rich, medium-hard, white cheese with blue veins, somewhat strong in flavor.
- west indian — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- west indies — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
- westernised — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
- when-issued — of, relating to, or noting an agreement to buy securities paid for at the time of delivery. Abbreviation: wi, w.i.
- whirlybirds — Plural form of whirlybird.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whiskeyfied — (of a person, voice, etc) affected by excessive whisky drinking
- whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
- 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 goods — household appliances
- white sound — white noise.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
- whitsuntide — the week beginning with Whitsunday, especially the first three days of this week.
- whittuesday — the day following Whitmonday.
- widdershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
- wide-screen — of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.
- 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.
- wildebeests — Plural form of wildebeest.
- wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- wind chimes — mobile that makes a tinkling sound
- wind sprint — a sprint, usually run several times in succession as part of a conditioning program, to develop an athlete's wind, speed, and endurance.
- wind-screen — windshield.
- 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.
- window-shop — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- windows 3.0 — (operating system) A complete rework of Microsoft Windows with many new facilities such as the ability to address memory beyond 640k. It was released in 1990, and vigorous development of applications by third parties helped Microsoft sell over 10 million copies.
- windows 3.1 — (operating system) A version of Microsoft Windows with many improvements over Windows 3.0, including True Type Fonts, Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and Mouse Trails for use with LCD Devices. It also saw the loss of Real Mode, which meant it would no longer run on Intel 8086 processors (did anyone ever do this anyway?). Sometimes described as "stand-alone Windows", in contrast to Windows for Workgroups 3.1. Windows 3.11 is a free bug-fix update. 3.1's successors are Windows 95 and Windows NT.
- windows 4gl — (tool, database) (INGRES/Windows 4GL) A graphical tool running on top of a workstation's native windowing system, to help developers to build user interfaces to INGRES applications.
- windowsills — Plural form of windowsill.
- windscreens — Plural form of windscreen.
- windshields — Plural form of windshield.
- windsor tie — a wide, soft necktie of black silk, tied at the neck in a loose bow.