12-letter words containing a, l, w, e, n
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
- warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
- warren, earl — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
- well managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-drained — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- well-handled — managed, directed, or completed with efficiency: a well-handled political campaign.
- well-learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-meaning — meaning or intending well; having good intentions: a well-meaning but tactless person.
- well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- white walnut — butternut (def 1).
- wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
- windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
- wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
- wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- yellow avens — herb bennet.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.