12-letter words containing c, a, l, o, w
- shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- warm welcome — friendly or enthusiastic reception
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- water cooler — a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wood alcohol — methyl alcohol.
- yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.