12-letter words containing t, e, l, w
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- walter mitty — an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life.
- walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
- wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
- wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
- wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- water ballet — synchronized movements, patterns, and other visual effects performed in the water by swimmers, usually to a musical accompaniment.
- water beetle — any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
- 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 filter — device for removing impurities from water
- 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 shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- water slater — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- 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.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- well treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-adapted — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- well-attired — to dress, array, or adorn, especially for special occasions, ceremonials, etc.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-content — fully contented; satisfied.
- well-fitting — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-merited — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.