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12-letter words containing o, n, a, d, w, e

  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
  • now and then — occasionally
  • opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • unforewarned — not forewarned
  • unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
  • vienna woods — Wienerwald.
  • wagon-headed — of the form of a round arch or a semicylinder, like the cover of a wagon when stretched over the bows, as a ceiling or roof.
  • wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
  • wall-mounted — hung on a wall
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
  • watered-down — made weaker or less effective from or as from dilution with water: a watered-down cocktail; Spectators saw a watered-down version of the famous opera.
  • waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
  • weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
  • westmorelandWilliam Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
  • window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
  • window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
  • woman driver — a female driver
  • woman friend — a female friend
  • wood anemone — any of several anemones, especially Anemone nemorosa, of the Old World, or A. quinquefolia, of the U.S.
  • wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
  • wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
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