12-letter words containing t, w, e, o, u
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying 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 sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- water vapour — steam
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- 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
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- 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.
- wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
- 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
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- 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.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- 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.