12-letter words containing n, w, b
- weeny-bopper — a child of 8 to 12 years, esp a girl, who is a keen follower of pop music
- well-blended — to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- 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.
- whipping boy — a person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistake; scapegoat.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whomping big — impressively large
- wideband atm — (networking) An enhanced form of ATM networking that transfers digital data over local area networks, originally at 0.96 Gbps, now (Aug 1996) at 1.0 Gbps.
- wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- window blind — window shade.
- window board — a thin board serving as a stool of a window.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- woburn abbey — a mansion in Woburn in Bedfordshire: originally an abbey; rebuilt in the 17th century for the Dukes of Bedford, altered by Henry Holland in the 18th century; deer park landscaped by Humphrey Repton
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrong number — a call made to a number other than the one intended. the number or person reached through such a call.