12-letter words containing k, e, n, w
- weekend case — a case used to pack things for a weekend trip
- weft-knitted — noting or pertaining to a fabric made by weft knitting.
- white knight — a hero who comes to the rescue.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wonderworker — A person who performs miracles or wonders.
- work wonders — have a transforming effect
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working week — A working week is the amount of time during a normal week that you spend doing your job.
- workingwomen — a woman who is regularly employed.
- worklessness — (British) Unemployment; the state of being without paid work.
- wounded knee — a village in SW South Dakota: site of a massacre of about 300 Oglala Sioux Indians on Dec. 29, 1890.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrecking car — a car that is equipped as a wrecker. Compare wrecker (def 2).
- writing desk — a piece of furniture with a surface for writing, with drawers and pigeonholes for writing materials.
- wunderkinder — Plural form of wunderkind.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.