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12-letter words containing c, r, e, w

  • warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
  • 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 jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
  • 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-jacket — to surround or fit with 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.
  • watering can — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
  • weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
  • weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
  • weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
  • weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
  • 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.
  • weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
  • well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • 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.
  • west african — of or relating to West Africa
  • west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
  • whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
  • whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • 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.
  • wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
  • winter cress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
  • wire cutters — tool: pliers
  • wire service — agency that sends news stories
  • wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
  • within reach — close enough to be reached
  • 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.
  • 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.
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