12-letter words containing r, u, w, e
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- 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-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- wherethrough — through which; because of
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- white russia — Belorussia
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- 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.
- 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.
- wire cutters — tool: pliers
- 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.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- 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.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- 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.
- wunderkinder — Plural form of wunderkind.
- youth worker — A youth worker is a person whose job involves providing support and social activities for young people, especially young people from poor backgrounds.