12-letter words containing l, o, w, e, n
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- western roll — a technique in high-jumping in which the jumper executes a half-turn of the body to clear the bar
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
- window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- woodlessness — the state of having no wood
- wordlessness — speechless, silent, or mute.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- worklessness — (British) Unemployment; the state of being without paid work.
- wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- yellow avens — herb bennet.
- yellow no. 5 — a yellow dye used in food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products: required by FDA regulations to be identified on food labels because of possible allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
- yellow-green — a color containing both yellow and green.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.