12-letter words containing k, o, w
- 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
- sparrow hawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- streetworker — a social worker who works with youths of a neighborhood.
- take to wife — to marry (a woman)
- 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.
- 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
- to walk tall — If you say that someone walks tall, you mean that they behave in a way that shows that they have pride in themselves and in what they are doing.
- 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 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 through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- 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
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water worker — a person employed in the water industry
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
- widow's walk — a platform or walk atop a roof, as on certain coastal New England houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries: often used as a lookout for incoming ships.
- 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.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- work through — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- work to rule — If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions.
- work wonders — have a transforming effect
- work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time