11-letter words containing w, v, t
- violet wood — kingwood.
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- vowel point — any of a group of auxiliary symbols, as small lines and dots, placed above or below consonant symbols to indicate vowels in a writing system, as that of Hebrew or Arabic, in which vowels are otherwise not written.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- water level — the surface level of any body of water.
- water vapor — a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. Compare steam (def 2).
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- weathervane — A revolving pointer to show the direction of the wind, typically mounted on top of a building.
- welsh vault — underpitch vault.
- west covina — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- westerville — a town in central Ohio.
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- 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
- white river — a river flowing SE from NW Arkansas into the Mississippi River. 690 miles (1110 km) long.
- white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
- white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
- white wavey — See under wavey.
- white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- write cover — If an insurance company writes cover, it underwrites a risk or insures someone.