12-letter words containing k, n, o, w
- 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.
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
- 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
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- ring network — (networking, topology) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- the new look — a fashion in women's clothes introduced in 1947, characterized by long full skirts
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- 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-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- 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 shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
- windsor knot — a wide, triangular knot for tying a four-in-hand necktie.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wonderworker — A person who performs miracles or wonders.
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- work wonders — have a transforming effect
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working girl — Older Use: Often Offensive. a woman who works.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- working week — A working week is the amount of time during a normal week that you spend doing your job.
- workingwoman — a woman who is regularly employed.
- workingwomen — a woman who is regularly employed.
- worklessness — (British) Unemployment; the state of being without paid work.
- workstations — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- wounded knee — a village in SW South Dakota: site of a massacre of about 300 Oglala Sioux Indians on Dec. 29, 1890.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- you-know-who — a person whose name one does not want to say, but who is known to the person to whom one is speaking
- 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.