12-letter words containing c, o, w, e
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- 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
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- 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
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water cannon — a truck-mounted hose or pipe that shoots a jet of water through a nozzle at extremely high pressure, used especially in dispersing rioters or demonstrators.
- 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 coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
- 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 pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- 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.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- 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-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- white coffee — coffee: with milk
- 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.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- wisconsinite — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,154 sq. mi. (145,440 sq. km). Capital: Madison. Abbreviation: WI (for use with zip code), Wis., Wisc.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wood cudweed — a weedy, composite plant, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, of the North Temperate Zone, having woolly foliage and numerous, dirty-white flowerheads in a leafy spike.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.