12-letter words containing d, e, w, l
- well-handled — managed, directed, or completed with efficiency: a well-handled political campaign.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-merited — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-ordered — arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.
- well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- well-pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- well-reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- well-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- well-staffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- well-studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- well-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- well-watered — having rivers or streams: an amply watered area.
- well-weighed — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
- whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- 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.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wildernesses — Plural form of wilderness.
- windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
- window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- woodlessness — the state of having no wood
- wordlessness — speechless, silent, or mute.
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world leader — sth that is the best internationally