12-letter words containing s, p, a, w
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- well-pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
- widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- worlds apart — in different environments
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- yellow pages — Network Information Service