12-letter words containing e, r, w, i
- counter-view — an opposing or contrasting opinion.
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- curliewurlie — an extremely curled or twisted object or ornament
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- editorial we — we (def 6).
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- eiffel tower — landmark in Paris
- evening wear — smart clothing designed for wearing at formal occasions during the evening
- everywhither — (archaic,or,poetic) to everywhere.
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
- far and wide — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fencing wire — a heavy-gauge galvanized wire used for farm fences
- ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- french twist — French roll.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- gale warning — U.S. Meteorology. a National Weather Service warning of sustained winds at sea having speeds in the range 34–47 knots (39–54 mph, 17–24 m/sec). Compare warning (def 3).
- gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
- general will — (in the philosophy of Rousseau) the source of legitimate authority residing in the collective will as contrasted with individual interests
- genital wart — one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
- get in wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.