12-letter words containing c, e, l, w
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- 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
- tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
- two sicilies — Two Sicilies.
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.
- wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- wall creeper — a small, gray and crimson Old World bird, Tichodroma muraria, that inhabits cliffs in mountainous areas.
- 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.
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
- warm welcome — friendly or enthusiastic reception
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- 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-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-content — fully contented; satisfied.
- well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- 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 cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
- wild lettuce — any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- world record — international best