12-letter words containing r, o, l, e, t, w
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- toilet water — a scented liquid used as a light perfume; cologne.
- torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
- tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
- town dweller — a person who resides in a town
- tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
- trolley wire — an overhead wire that provides the current required for the trolleys of electric vehicles
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- water bottle — container that holds drinking water
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- water cooler — a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
- 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 willow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Justicia, of the acanthus family, growing in water or wet places, especially J. americana, of North America, having clusters of pale violet to white flowers.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- 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
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- 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-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
- whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- work to rule — If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions.
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.