12-letter words containing k, e, w, a
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
- make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- network card — network interface controller
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
- 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
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- reading week — university: week-long break from classes
- sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
- sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
- skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- take a whizz — to urinate
- take to wife — to marry (a woman)
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
- walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
- walking leaf — leaf insect.