12-letter words containing p, i, w
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- wild pumpkin — calabazilla.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- winning post — a post on a racetrack, marking the goal of a race.
- winnipegosis — Lake, a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba, W of Lake Winnipeg. 2086 sq. mi. (5405 sq. km).
- with-profits — A with-profits savings scheme or financial plan is one in which the people who put money into the scheme receive extra money each year based on how successful the investment has been.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.