12-letter words containing d, r, u
- well-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- 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.
- 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.
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
- winding drum — a rotating drum usually grooved to nest a wire rope which is wound onto it as part of the mechanism of a hoist
- withoutdoors — out of doors.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wondrousness — The quality of being wondrous.
- wood turning — the forming of wood articles upon a lathe.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- world-famous — famous throughout the world: a world-famous film.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- wunderkinder — Plural form of wunderkind.
- 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
- youth leader — a person who has responsibility for the young people at a youth club etc
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse