12-letter words containing t, e, l, w
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
- whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
- whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
- whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wild lettuce — any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
- williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage
- wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
- windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
- winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
- wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
- wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- 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.
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- yellow alert — (in military or civilian defense) the first alert given when enemy aircraft are discovered approaching a military installation, city, coastline, etc. Compare blue alert, red alert, white alert.
- yellow light — a yellow traffic light, usually preceding a signal halting traffic in a particular direction.
- yellow metal — a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
- yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
- yellowthroat — any of several American warblers of the genus Geothlypis, having a throat that is yellow, especially the common yellowthroat, G. trichas.