12-letter words containing d, o, w, n
- watered-down — made weaker or less effective from or as from dilution with water: a watered-down cocktail; Spectators saw a watered-down version of the famous opera.
- watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.
- waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
- well-endowed — to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
- well-founded — having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- 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
- window glass — glass used in windows
- window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
- window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
- windows 2000 — (operating system) (Win2k, W2k, NT5, Windows NT 5.0) An operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation for PCs and servers, as the successor to Windows NT 4.0. Early beta versions were referred to as "Windows NT 5.0". Windows 2000 was officially released on 2000-02-17. Windows 2000 is most commonly used on Intel x86 and Pentium processors, with a DEC Alpha version rumoured. Unlike Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 is not available for PowerPC or MIPS. Windows 2000's user interface is very similar to Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 with integrated Internet Explorer, or to Windows 98. It is available in four flavours: - Professional: the client version, meant for desktop workstations, successor to Windows NT Workstation. - Server: "entry-level" server, designed for small deployments, and departmental file, print, or intranet servers. - Advanced Server: high throughput, larger scale servers and applications, and small to medium scale websites. - Data Center Server: software for large-scale server clusters (in development as of 2000-03-14). New features in Windows 2000 include: - Active Directory. - Greatly improved built-in security mechanisms, including Kerberos-based authentication, public key support, an encrypting file system, and IPsec support. - Integrated web browser - Internet Explorer 5.0. - Integrated web server - IIS 5.0 - Terminal services for displaying application interfaces on remote computers (similar to X-Windows). - File protection that prevents user programs from accidentally deleting or overwriting critical system files. - Improved hardware support, including Plug-and-Play, DVD, IEEE-1394 (FireWire), USB, infra-red, PCMCIA, ACPI, laptop computers. - Improved user interface, including a single point to control the entire system. - Improved management tools, including remote administration. Minimum system requirements, according to Microsoft, are Pentium-133 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 650 MB of hard disk space. These are for W2K Professional, others require more. Many operating systems compete with Windows 2000, including the Apple MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, SGI Irix. Novell's NDS also provides a service similar to Active Directory. Windows 2000 will be followed by Windows XP Professional and Windows 2002.
- windows 3.11 — (operating system) A free minor bug-fix for Windows 3.1.
- windows nt 4 — (operating system) A version of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, originally code named "Cairo". It was supposed to ship in the first half of 1995. Details are scarce, but it is intended to provide an object-oriented version of Windows.
- windows nt 5 — Windows 2000
- windsor knot — a wide, triangular knot for tying a four-in-hand necktie.
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- wing loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- wing-forward — either of the two forwards positioned at the outside of a scrum
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- woman doctor — a female doctor
- woman driver — a female driver
- woman friend — a female friend
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wondermonger — a person who tells of or works wonders
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wonderworker — A person who performs miracles or wonders.
- wondrousness — The quality of being wondrous.
- wood anemone — any of several anemones, especially Anemone nemorosa, of the Old World, or A. quinquefolia, of the U.S.
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- wood turning — the forming of wood articles upon a lathe.
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- wooden horse — Trojan horse (def 1).
- wooden spoon — A wooden spoon is a spoon that is used for stirring sauces and for mixing ingredients in cooking. It is made of wood and has a long handle.
- woodlessness — the state of having no wood
- woodshedding — Present participle of woodshed.