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12-letter words containing i, t, w

  • new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
  • new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
  • new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
  • new frontier — the principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.
  • new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
  • newly minted — new, recently created
  • night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
  • nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
  • nonnewtonian — Not Newtonian.
  • not with you — not able to grasp or follow what you are saying
  • noteworthily — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
  • of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
  • off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
  • outside work — work done off the premises of a business
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
  • overwithhold — to withhold too much.
  • owing to sth — You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something.
  • 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.
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
  • pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • 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
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • preinterview — a preparatory meeting held before an interview
  • printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
  • private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
  • prose writer — a person who writes prose
  • provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
  • quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
  • quieten down — If someone or something quietens down or if you quieten them down, they become less noisy or less active.
  • raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
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