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11-letter words containing w

  • bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
  • bull's wool — nonsense
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
  • cadwallader — a male given name.
  • cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
  • camera crew — a group of people who are involved in the operation of a film camera
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
  • capped pawn — a pawn that has been singled out or marked by a strong player as the one with which he or she intends to effect checkmate in giving a weaker opponent odds.
  • care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
  • carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.
  • cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
  • cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
  • caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
  • cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
  • castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
  • casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
  • casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • catchweight — of or relating to a contest in which normal weight categories have been waived by agreement
  • caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
  • caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
  • cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
  • cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
  • cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
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