11-letter words containing nd
- vagabondage — the state or condition of being a vagabond; idle wandering.
- vagabondize — to behave like a vagabond
- valley wind — a wind that ascends a mountain valley during the day.
- van zeeland — Paul [poul] /paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1973, Belgian statesman: premier 1935–37.
- vandemonian — a native or inhabitant of the former Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
- vendemiaire — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the first month of the year, extending from September 22 to October 21.
- venditation — a boastful or ostentatious display
- vent window — (on an automobile) a small, pivoting window fitted into a main side window to provide draft-free ventilation.
- vindication — the act of vindicating.
- vindicative — tending or serving to vindicate.
- vindicatory — tending or serving to vindicate.
- vivekananda — (Narendranath Datta) 1863–1902, Hindu religious leader and teacher.
- vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
- wand reader — wand (def 6).
- wand-reader — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
- watt-second — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt acting for one second; the equivalent of one joule.
- weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
- weak-minded — having or showing a lack of mental firmness; irresolute; vacillating.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- weekendings — weekends during which one goes away from home
- well-bonded — secured by or consisting of bonds: bonded debt.
- wellfounded — (math) Alternative form of well-founded.
- wendy house — a child's playhouse.
- west indian — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- west indies — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- white sound — white noise.
- wild indigo — any of several plants belonging to the genus Baptisia, of the legume family, especially B. tinctoria, having yellow flowers.
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- willow wand — a slender stick or rod made of willow used especially in magic or divination
- wind chimes — mobile that makes a tinkling sound
- wind energy — wind power.
- wind sprint — a sprint, usually run several times in succession as part of a conditioning program, to develop an athlete's wind, speed, and endurance.
- wind tunnel — a tubular chamber or structure in which a steady current of air can be maintained at a controlled velocity, equipped with devices for measuring and recording forces and moments on scale models of complete aircraft or of their parts or, sometimes, on full-scale aircraft or their parts.
- wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
- wind-screen — windshield.
- wind-shaken — affected by windshake.
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- windbreaker — A wind -resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs.
- windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.