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12-letter words containing n, o, w

  • weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
  • weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
  • weavers-knot — sheet bend.
  • wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
  • weeny-bopper — a child of 8 to 12 years, esp a girl, who is a keen follower of pop music
  • weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
  • well logging — the process or technique of recording a well log.
  • well-content — fully contented; satisfied.
  • well-endowed — to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
  • well-founded — having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
  • well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
  • well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
  • 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.
  • west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
  • 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
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
  • whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
  • wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
  • whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
  • whipping boy — a person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistake; scapegoat.
  • whipping top — a spinning top that is set going by striking it with a toy whip so that the lash curls around it before pulling it away quickly
  • whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
  • white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
  • 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.
  • whomping big — impressively large
  • whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
  • whore-monger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
  • whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
  • 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
  • wilton manor — a town in S Florida.
  • wind erosion — the erosion, transportation, and deposition of topsoil by the wind, especially in dust storms.
  • window blind — window shade.
  • window board — a thin board serving as a stool of a window.
  • window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
  • window glass — glass used in windows
  • window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
  • window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
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