12-letter words containing c, s, w
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
- walkingstick — a stick used for walking
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- 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.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- 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.
- weekend case — a case used to pack things for a weekend trip
- 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.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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)
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- 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
- 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.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
- woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.