12-letter words containing r, u, n, w
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
- white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
- winding drum — a rotating drum usually grooved to nest a wire rope which is wound onto it as part of the mechanism of a hoist
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- woburn abbey — a mansion in Woburn in Bedfordshire: originally an abbey; rebuilt in the 17th century for the Dukes of Bedford, altered by Henry Holland in the 18th century; deer park landscaped by Humphrey Repton
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wondrousness — The quality of being wondrous.
- wood turning — the forming of wood articles upon a lathe.
- wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- wrong number — a call made to a number other than the one intended. the number or person reached through such a call.
- wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- wunderkinder — Plural form of wunderkind.