12-letter words containing r, u, w, e
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- how are you? — what is your state of health?
- how dare you — You say 'how dare you' when you are very shocked and angry about something that someone has done.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- low-pressure — having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- 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.
- picture show — motion picture.
- power supply — power supply unit
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- 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).
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- putty powder — an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
- queen's ware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
- ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.