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

  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
  • tube railway — subway (def 1).
  • two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
  • walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
  • wastebaskets — Plural form of wastebasket.
  • watchability — detectable; apparent.
  • water ballet — synchronized movements, patterns, and other visual effects performed in the water by swimmers, usually to a musical accompaniment.
  • water bearer — Aquarius.
  • water beetle — any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
  • water bomber — an aircraft with special tanks for holding water that can be dropped on forest fires
  • water bottle — container that holds drinking water
  • water bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
  • water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
  • waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
  • watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
  • weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
  • 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.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
  • white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
  • wideband atm — (networking)   An enhanced form of ATM networking that transfers digital data over local area networks, originally at 0.96 Gbps, now (Aug 1996) at 1.0 Gbps.
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
  • withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
  • world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
  • world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
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