12-letter words containing a, r, w, d
- unroadworthy — not mechanically sound or suitable for use on the road
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- war of words — argument
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- warm-hearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- warrant card — a police officer's proof of identity
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- washer-dryer — a washing machine and a clothes dryer combined in one unit.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water meadow — a meadow kept fertile by flooding.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-harden — to quench (steel) in water.
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- 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.
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- weak-hearted — without courage or fortitude; fainthearted.
- weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- weather tide — a tide moving against the direction of the wind.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- 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 treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-attired — to dress, array, or adorn, especially for special occasions, ceremonials, etc.
- 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-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- well-learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- well-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-watered — having rivers or streams: an amply watered area.
- 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-haired — having hair that is white.
- whitherwards — toward what or which place
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- wide-ranging — extending over a large area; extensive or diversified in scope: wide-ranging lands; a wide-ranging discussion.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip