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12-letter words containing p, i, e, w

  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • tip the wink — to give a hint
  • triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
  • twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
  • twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
  • unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
  • wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
  • walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
  • walled plain — a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.
  • wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
  • warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
  • water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
  • watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • weaponeering — the act of fitting out with weapons
  • weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
  • west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
  • west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
  • wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
  • whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
  • whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
  • whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
  • whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
  • whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
  • white pepper — a condiment prepared from the husked dried berries of the pepper plant, used either whole or ground.
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • 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 potato — potato (def 1).
  • 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.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
  • wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
  • widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
  • wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
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