12-letter words containing o, s, w, e
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
- well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- 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
- 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.
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
- whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
- whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
- 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.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- widow's mite — a small contribution given cheerfully by one who can ill afford it. Mark 12:41–44.
- widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.