12-letter words containing d, h, o, w
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- what…do with — to put or place
- wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- 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.
- wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
- window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
- wisdom tooth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
- witch doctor — a person in some societies who attempts to cure sickness and to exorcise evil spirits by the use of magic.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- withoutdoors — out of doors.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wood alcohol — methyl alcohol.
- wood's light — ultraviolet light filtered through glass containing nickel oxide, used in detecting forgeries, in detecting microbes in hair, etc.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.
- wooden horse — Trojan horse (def 1).
- woodshedding — Present participle of woodshed.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- wordsmithery — the craft or skill of a wordsmith
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.