12-letter words containing r, e, d, w, i
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- mermaid weed — any of several North American, aquatic plants of the genus Proserpinaca, having pinnately dissected leaves either above or below the water.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- oriel window — a bay window, esp one that is supported by one or more brackets or corbels
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- owner-driver — a person who owns the vehicle he drives
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- power window — Power windows are windows in a vehicle which are raised or lowered by an electric motor operated by a button or switch.
- power-driven — powered by an electric motor
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- reading week — university: week-long break from classes
- ready-witted — having a quick wit or intelligence.
- redwood city — a city in W California.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- thitherwards — in that direction
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- trigger word — a word that initiates a process or course of action
- twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
- twig girdler — a person or thing that girdles.
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.