11-letter words containing w
- bevel wheel — a toothed wheel, set at an oblique angle to the axis
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bid welcome — to receive with cordial greetings
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- bingo wings — areas of loose or flabby skin on the upper arm, esp in women, which hang down when the arm is extended
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
- bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- bogged down — If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done.
- boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.