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12-letter words containing i, l, w

  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
  • whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • widow's walk — a platform or walk atop a roof, as on certain coastal New England houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries: often used as a lookout for incoming ships.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
  • wild lettuce — any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
  • wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
  • wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
  • wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
  • wild pumpkin — calabazilla.
  • wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
  • wild vanilla — vanilla plant.
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • wildernesses — Plural form of wilderness.
  • wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
  • wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • william laud — William, 1573–1645, archbishop of Canterbury and opponent of Puritanism: executed for treason.
  • william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
  • williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
  • williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage
  • willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
  • willow south — a city in S Alaska, about 113 km (70 miles) northwest of Anchorage: chosen as the site of the projected new state capital in 1976
  • wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
  • wilton manor — a town in S Florida.
  • windfall tax — a tax levied on an organization considered to have made excessive profits, esp a privatized utility company that has exploited a monopoly
  • windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
  • window blind — window shade.
  • window glass — glass used in windows
  • window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
  • wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
  • wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
  • wing loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
  • winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
  • winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
  • wishing well — a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.
  • witch hobble — the hobblebush.
  • withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
  • withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
  • withholdment — the act of withholding
  • without fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • władysław ii — original name Jogaila. ?1351–1434, grand duke of Lithuania (1377–1401) and king of Poland (1386–1434). He united Lithuania and Poland and founded the Jagiellon dynasty
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