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12-letter words containing p, w, a

  • grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
  • great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
  • hanging pawn — one of two or more adjacent pawns on central half-open files with no pawns of the same colour on the files immediately to left and right of them
  • harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • hot swapping — (hardware)   The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
  • japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
  • java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
  • jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
  • kangaroo paw — any plant of the Australian genus Anigozanthos, resembling a kangaroo's paw, esp the red-and-green flowered A. manglesii, which is the floral emblem of Western Australia: family Haemodoraceae
  • kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
  • laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
  • layaway plan — a method of purchasing by which the purchaser reserves an article with a down payment and claims it only after paying the full balance.
  • make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
  • murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
  • new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
  • new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
  • newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
  • newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
  • opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • paddle wheel — a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
  • paddle-wheel — a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
  • palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
  • paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
  • parallelwise — in a parallel manner
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • pascal's law — the law that an external pressure applied to a fluid in a closed vessel is uniformly transmitted throughout the fluid.
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
  • pave the way — be a pioneer
  • pay-per-view — a system requiring that a subscriber pay for each program viewed: championship games seen only on pay-per-view.
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
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