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

  • well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • 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-ordered — arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.
  • well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
  • well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • 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
  • westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
  • wherethrough — through which; because of
  • whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
  • white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • 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-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.
  • 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.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • 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
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • 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.
  • whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • wind erosion — the erosion, transportation, and deposition of topsoil by the wind, especially in dust storms.
  • window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
  • wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
  • winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
  • winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
  • winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
  • withersoever — To wherever, to anywhere.
  • wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
  • 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
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
  • wolf-ferrari — Ermanno [er-mahn-naw] /ɛrˈmɑn nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1948, Italian composer.
  • woman driver — a female driver
  • woman friend — a female friend
  • woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
  • women's room — ladies' room.
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