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11-letter words containing we

  • sweet grass — any of several fragrant plants, as manna grass or the sweet flag.
  • sweet herbs — sweet-smelling herbs that are grown specifically for cooking
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • sweet spire — a shrub, Itea virginica, of the eastern and southern U.S., having showy, fragrant, white flowers.
  • sweet tooth — a liking or craving for candy and other sweets.
  • sweet-tooth — a liking or craving for candy and other sweets.
  • sweetie pie — sweetheart (used especially as a term of endearment).
  • sweetie-pie — sweetheart (used especially as a term of endearment).
  • sweetiewife — a garrulous person
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • teeny-weeny — tiny; small.
  • texas tower — an offshore radar-equipped platform supported by foundations sunk into the floor of the ocean, formerly used as part of a system for warning against air attacks.
  • the swedish — the people of Sweden collectively
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • tig welding — tungsten-electrode inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the arc is maintained by a tungsten electrode and shielded from the access of air by an inert gas
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • tower crane — a rotatable cantilever jib on top of a steelwork tower used on building sites where the operator needs to command a good view of the site
  • tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
  • travel well — If goods such as food products travel well, they can be transported a long way without being damaged or their quality being spoiled.
  • troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
  • trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
  • tweet thief — a person who steals another’s tweets on the Twitter website
  • tweet tooth — a person who has a strong craving to post a tweet on the Twitter website
  • tweetcation — a short break from posting on the Twitter website
  • twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
  • twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
  • twelfthtide — the season of Twelfth Night and Twelfth Day.
  • twelve step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
  • twelve-inch — a phonograph record twelve inches in diameter, especially one with two or more remixes of the same song.
  • twelve-step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
  • twelve-tone — based on or incorporating the twelve-tone technique: twelve-tone music.
  • twelvemonth — a year.
  • twenty-five — a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.
  • twenty-fold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
  • twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
  • twenty-nine — a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.
  • twill weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are woven over and under two or more warp yarns, producing a characteristic diagonal pattern.
  • un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
  • underviewer — a person who inspects a mine every day
  • underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
  • unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
  • unix weenie — (jargon)   (ITS) 1. A derogatory play on "Unix wizard", common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been written by a real Unix weenie." 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often appearing in the context "stupid Unix weenie". See Weenix, Unix conspiracy, weenie.
  • unswallowed — not swallowed
  • unsweetened — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
  • unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
  • unweariably — in an unweariable manner
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