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12-letter words containing l, o, w, e

  • waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
  • wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
  • weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
  • weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • 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 logging — the process or technique of recording a well log.
  • well-beloved — loved deeply and sincerely: my well-beloved fiancé.
  • well-clothed — to dress; attire.
  • well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
  • well-content — fully contented; satisfied.
  • well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • well-endowed — to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
  • well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
  • well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • well-founded — having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
  • well-groomed — having the hair, skin, etc., well cared for; well-dressed, clean, and neat: a well-groomed young man.
  • well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
  • well-ordered — arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.
  • well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
  • well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • 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.
  • west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
  • 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.
  • wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white willow — a willow tree, Salix alba, of Europe and Asia having leaves with pale undersides
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • 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 sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • whole-hogger — a person who is whole-heartedly committed to something
  • whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
  • whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
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