11-letter words containing w, u, g
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swing-music — Also called Big Band music, swing music. a style of jazz, popular especially in the 1930s and often arranged for a large dance band, marked by a smoother beat and more flowing phrasing than Dixieland and having less complex harmonies and rhythms than modern jazz.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
- through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
- tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
- unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
- under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
- undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
- underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
- underwiring — support provided by an underwire
- unknowingly — ignorant or unaware: unknowing aid to the enemy.
- unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- unweetingly — in an ignorant manner
- unweighting — the action of minimizing the pressure of body weight on a ski before a turn by briefly bending down or straightening up
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- unwillingly — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
- unwinkingly — in an unwinking manner
- unwithering — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- unwittingly — inadvertent; unintentional; accidental: His insult, though unwitting, pained her.
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
- watch guard — a short chain, cord, or ribbon for securing a watch when worn on the person.
- water gauge — any device for indicating the height of water in a reservoir, tank, boiler, or other vessel.
- wedge issue — an issue that divides or causes conflict in an otherwise unified group: Abortion is a wedge issue for the Republican Party.
- well argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well enough — sufficiently
- well-argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
- well-judged — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- well-taught — simple past tense and past participle of teach.
- westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- what though — what difference does it make that
- wheel gauge — the distance between two wheels on the same axle of a vehicle
- wilkinsburg — a borough in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- win through — succeed despite obstacles
- windsurfing — a form of sailing in which a flexible sail, free to move in any direction, is mounted on a surfboard and the craft guided by the standing rider.
- wire-guided — (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- wonder drug — a drug, usually recently discovered or developed, noted for its startling curative effect, as an antibiotic or sulfa drug.