12-letter words containing k, w, e
- 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.
- walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- wastebaskets — Plural form of wastebasket.
- 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 jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water turkey — anhinga.
- water worker — a person employed in the water industry
- water-jacket — to surround or fit with a water jacket.
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
- waxed jacket — a waterproof jacket made of waxed material
- weak-hearted — without courage or fortitude; fainthearted.
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- wedding cake — tiered cake served at a marriage party
- wedding-cake — highly ornate or overly elaborate: wedding-cake architecture.
- week by week — each week
- weekend case — a case used to pack things for a weekend trip
- weft-knitted — noting or pertaining to a fabric made by weft knitting.
- 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-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- white alkali — Agriculture. a whitish layer of mineral salts, especially sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulfate, often occurring on top of soils where rainfall is low.
- white knight — a hero who comes to the rescue.