11-letter words starting with w
- weatherford — a town in N Texas.
- weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
- weatherized — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherize.
- weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
- weathervane — A revolving pointer to show the direction of the wind, typically mounted on top of a building.
- weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
- weatherworn — weather-beaten.
- weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
- web address — Computers. URL (def 2).
- web browser — a person or thing that browses.
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- web du bois — William Edward Burghardt [burg-hahrd] /ˈbɜrg hɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1868–1963, U.S. educator and writer.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- web spinner — any of several slender insects, of the order Embioptera, that nest in colonies in silken webs spun with secretions from the enlarged front legs.
- webbed feet — bird, frog: toes joined by skin flaps
- weber river — a river in N Utah, flowing NW, joining the Ogden River and continuing into the Great Salt Lake. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- webmeisters — Plural form of webmeister.
- webmistress — a woman who designs and maintains a website.
- websquatter — A person or company that engages in websquatting.
- weddell sea — an arm of the Atlantic, E of Antarctic Peninsula.
- wedding day — the day of a wedding.
- wedge issue — an issue that divides or causes conflict in an otherwise unified group: Abortion is a wedge issue for the Republican Party.
- weed cutter — a hand implement, often powered by electricity or a gasoline motor, for cutting weeds or trimming grass and often utilizing a rotating nylon cord as the cutting blade.
- weed-killer — a herbicide.
- weedkillers — Plural form of weedkiller.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- weekendings — weekends during which one goes away from home
- weeping ivy — a climbing plant, Ficus benjamina, of the fig family, grown as a greenhouse or house plant for its graceful glossy leaves on slender drooping branches
- weierstrass — Karl Theodor [kahrl tey-oh-dawr] /kɑrl ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1815–97, German mathematician.
- weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
- weighbridge — a platform scale that stands flush with a road and is used for weighing trucks, livestock, etc.
- weight belt — a belt worn to control a diver's buoyancy under water, on which slotted lead weights can be slipped according to the diver's body size and weight and having a quick-release buckle for emergency discarding.
- weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
- weight loss — slimming
- weight room — weight-training gym
- weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- weingartner — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- weismannism — the theories of heredity as expounded by Weismann, especially the theory that all inheritable characteristics are carried in the germ plasm, and that acquired characteristics cannot be inherited.
- weissmuller — Peter John ("Johnny") 1904–84, U.S. swimmer and film actor.
- welcome mat — a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.
- welcomeness — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- 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
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well design — Well design is the features that are considered when planning and constructing a well.
- well enough — sufficiently
- well hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.