12-letter words containing i, t, w, o, n
- waiting room — a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- water coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whipping top — a spinning top that is set going by striking it with a toy whip so that the lash curls around it before pulling it away quickly
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- 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.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- 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.
- 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.
- winning post — a post on a racetrack, marking the goal of a race.
- winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- wisconsinite — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,154 sq. mi. (145,440 sq. km). Capital: Madison. Abbreviation: WI (for use with zip code), Wis., Wisc.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
- wood turning — the forming of wood articles upon a lathe.
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- workstations — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- writing room — a room in a building where people go to be quiet and write
- written word — You use the written word to refer to language expressed in writing, especially when contrasted with speech or with other forms of expression such as painting or film.
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- zwitterionic — an ion with both a positive and a negative charge.