11-letter words containing w, t, g
- weight belt — a belt worn to control a diver's buoyancy under water, on which slotted lead weights can be slipped according to the diver's body size and weight and having a quick-release buckle for emergency discarding.
- weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
- weight loss — slimming
- weight room — weight-training gym
- weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- weingartner — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
- well-taught — simple past tense and past participle of teach.
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- west german — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
- west-facing — orientated towards the west
- westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- what though — what difference does it make that
- wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
- wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.
- whistlingly — with a whistle; in a whistling manner
- white goods — household appliances
- white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
- white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
- white night — a sleepless night.
- 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-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
- wiggle-tail — wriggler (def 2).
- win through — succeed despite obstacles
- windowlight — windowpane (def 1).
- winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- wing-footed — having winged feet.
- wintergreen — Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.
- winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
- wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
- witch grass — a panic grass, Panicum capillare, having a bushlike compound panicle, common as a weed in North America.
- witenagemot — the assembly of the witan; the national council attended by the king, aldermen, bishops, and nobles.
- with a bang — begin, end: in a dramatic way
- withdrawing — Present participle of withdraw.
- witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- withholding — to hold back; restrain or check.
- woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.
- worthington — a town in central Ohio.
- wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
- writing pad — a book containing pieces of paper for you to write on
- wrong fount — an error in which a type of the wrong face or size is used
- wrong thing — (jargon) A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
- wurttemberg — a former state in SW Germany: now part of Baden-Württemberg.
- zero growth — a lack of increase or development