12-letter words containing d, e, n, r, a
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
- well-drained — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- well-learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- wide-ranging — extending over a large area; extensive or diversified in scope: wide-ranging lands; a wide-ranging discussion.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
- window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
- wine steward — a waiter in a restaurant or club who is in charge of wine; sommelier.
- winter-hardy — able to survive the effects of cold weather.
- withdrawment — The act of withdrawing; withdrawal; recall.
- woman driver — a female driver
- woman friend — a female friend
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- year-rounder — a person who is a year-round resident, as at a seasonal resort.
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse