12-letter words containing a, n, k
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- workingwoman — a woman who is regularly employed.
- workstations — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrecking car — a car that is equipped as a wrecker. Compare wrecker (def 2).
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- you can talk — you don't have to worry about doing a particular thing yourself
- yuan shi kai — 1859–1916, Chinese general and statesman: first president (1912–16) of the Chinese republic
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse