12-letter words containing d, o, w, i, n
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- oriel window — a bay window, esp one that is supported by one or more brackets or corbels
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- owner-driver — a person who owns the vehicle he drives
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- power window — Power windows are windows in a vehicle which are raised or lowered by an electric motor operated by a button or switch.
- power-driven — powered by an electric motor
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- quieten down — If someone or something quietens down or if you quieten them down, they become less noisy or less active.
- radio window — the range of wavelengths at which the earth's atmosphere is transparent to radio waves.
- rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
- round window — a membrane-covered opening in the inner wall of the middle ear that compensates for changes in cochlear pressure.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- wall molding — back molding.
- washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- 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.
- wind erosion — the erosion, transportation, and deposition of topsoil by the wind, especially in dust storms.
- window blind — window shade.
- window board — a thin board serving as a stool of a window.
- window frame — structure surrounding a window pane