12-letter words containing b, w, r
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- sword-bearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- web designer — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
- 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.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- weeny-bopper — a child of 8 to 12 years, esp a girl, who is a keen follower of pop music
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- 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
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- wide-brimmed — (of a hat) having a wide brim
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- window board — a thin board serving as a stool of a window.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- woburn abbey — a mansion in Woburn in Bedfordshire: originally an abbey; rebuilt in the 17th century for the Dukes of Bedford, altered by Henry Holland in the 18th century; deer park landscaped by Humphrey Repton
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.