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12-letter words containing e, r, w, i

  • owner-driver — a person who owns the vehicle he drives
  • oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
  • paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • parallelwise — in a parallel manner
  • pay-per-view — a system requiring that a subscriber pay for each program viewed: championship games seen only on pay-per-view.
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • power series — an infinite series in which the terms are coefficients times successive powers of a given variable, or times products of powers of two or more variables.
  • 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
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • preinterview — a preparatory meeting held before an interview
  • primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
  • printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
  • private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
  • prizewinning — having won, or worthy of, a prize
  • prose writer — a person who writes prose
  • provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • railway line — railroad route
  • raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
  • reading week — university: week-long break from classes
  • ready-witted — having a quick wit or intelligence.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • redwood city — a city in W California.
  • reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rice growing — the cultivation of rice as a food crop
  • right-winger — If you think someone has views which are more right-wing than most other members of their party, you can say they are a right-winger.
  • ring network — (networking, topology)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
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