12-letter words containing a, s, i, c
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- volcanic ash — ash1 (def 2).
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
- wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
- walkingstick — a stick used for walking
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- writing case — a portable folder with compartments for holding writing materials
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.