11-letter words containing w, s, r
- torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
- trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- trans woman — an adult who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- trelliswork — latticework.
- trestlework — a structural system composed of trestles.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- trip switch — an electric switch arranged to interrupt a circuit suddenly and disconnect power from a running machine so that the machine is stopped
- trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- tundra swan — a swan, Cygnus columbianus, nesting in tundra regions of both the New and Old Worlds, having a black bill with a yellow spot at the base.
- twist drill — a drill with one or more deep helical grooves in the body.
- un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- unawareness — not aware or conscious; unconscious: to be unaware of any change.
- under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- wall street — a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
- wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
- war surplus — equipment, supplies, etc., originally used by or manufactured for the armed forces, but disposed of cheaply as surplus or obsolete: He made his fortune in war surplus.
- ward sister — a senior nurse in charge of a ward
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- warm sector — the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.
- warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
- warrantless — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
- warsaw pact — an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- wasim akram — Chaudhry. born 1966, Pakistani cricketer: a fast bowler, he played in 104 test matches (1984–2002), 25 as captain, and took 414 wickets
- wasserstein — Wendy, 1950–2006, U.S. playwright.
- waste water — water that has been used, either in the home or in industry
- waste-water — water that has been used in washing, flushing, manufacturing, etc.; sewage.
- wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
- watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- water glass — a drinking glass; tumbler.
- water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- water rates — the charges made for the use of water from the public water supply
- water shrew — either of two small amphibious shrews, Neomys fodiens (European water shrew) or N. anomalus (Mediterranean water shrew), having a dark pelage with paler underparts