11-letter words containing ld
- waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
- waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
- 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.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- welded tuff — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting mainly of welded shards of feldspar and quartz.
- welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
- wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
- white alder — sweet pepperbush.
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild celery — tape grass.
- wild fennel — any of several annual herbs of the genus Nigella, having dissected leaves and showy blue or white flowers.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- wild ginger — any of various plants belonging to the genus Asarum, of the birthwort family, especially A. canadense, a woodland plant of eastern North America, having two heart-shaped leaves, a solitary reddish-brown flower, and a pungent rhizome.
- wild indigo — any of several plants belonging to the genus Baptisia, of the legume family, especially B. tinctoria, having yellow flowers.
- wild madder — madder1 (defs 1, 2).
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- wild radish — another name for white charlock
- wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- wild weasel — a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.
- wild-headed — given to wild or exorbitant ideas.
- wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
- wildebeests — Plural form of wildebeest.
- wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
- wildfowling — Present participle of wildfowl.
- windshields — Plural form of windshield.
- witch alder — a shrub, Fothergilla gardenii, of the witch hazel family, native to the southeastern U.S., having spikes of white flowers that bloom before the leaves appear.
- withholding — to hold back; restrain or check.
- world court — an international tribunal established under the Covenant of the League of Nations and replaced in 1945 by the International Court of Justice.
- world music — (sometimes initial capital letters) any of various styles of popular music combining traditional, indigenous forms with elements of another culture's music, especially of Western rock and pop.
- world point — (in relativity) a point in space-time, specified by three space coordinates and a time coordinate. Compare event (def 4).
- world power — a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
- world title — the winner's position in an international competition
- world war i — the war (1914–18), fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, in which the Allies (principally France, Russia, Britain, Italy after 1915, and the US after 1917) defeated the Central Powers (principally Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). The war was precipitated by the assassination of Austria's crown prince (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 and swiftly developed its major front in E France, where millions died in static trench warfare. After the October Revolution (1917) the Bolsheviks ended Russian participation in the war (Dec 15, 1917). The exhausted Central Powers agreed to an armistice on Nov 11, 1918 and quickly succumbed to internal revolution, before being forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) and other treaties
- world-class — ranking among the world's best; outstanding: a world-class orchestra.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
- worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- worldliness — of or relating to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc.; earthly; mundane.
- yield curve — finance: a graph showing yield of securities with different maturity dates
- yield point — the stress at which an elastic material under increasing stress ceases to behave elastically; under conditions of tensile strength the elongation is no longer proportional to the increase in stress
- zinnwaldite — a yellow-brown variety of mica containing iron, found with tin ores.