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12-letter words containing a, n, t, w

  • warrant card — a police officer's proof of identity
  • warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
  • washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
  • washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
  • water cannon — a truck-mounted hose or pipe that shoots a jet of water through a nozzle at extremely high pressure, used especially in dispersing rioters or demonstrators.
  • water coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
  • water-harden — to quench (steel) in water.
  • watered-down — made weaker or less effective from or as from dilution with water: a watered-down cocktail; Spectators saw a watered-down version of the famous opera.
  • waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
  • watering can — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • waterishness — the state of being waterish
  • waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
  • watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
  • watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.
  • wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
  • waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
  • wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
  • weather vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
  • weather-vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
  • weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
  • weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
  • weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
  • weavers-knot — sheet bend.
  • weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
  • well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
  • west african — of or relating to West Africa
  • west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
  • whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
  • whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • 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 raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
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