12-letter words containing t, w, i, d
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle white — a breed of medium-sized white pig commonly kept for pork and bacon, and for fattening
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- newly minted — new, recently created
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
- quieten down — If someone or something quietens down or if you quieten them down, they become less noisy or less active.
- ready-witted — having a quick wit or intelligence.
- redwood city — a city in W California.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- thick-witted — lacking intelligence; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
- this-worldly — distinguished by or relating to material or earthly concerns; not spiritual or concerned with life in a future or imaginary world
- thitherwards — in that direction
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- trigger word — a word that initiates a process or course of action
- twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
- twig girdler — a person or thing that girdles.