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12-letter words containing t, w, i, r

  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
  • flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • french twist — French roll.
  • friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
  • fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
  • genital wart — one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
  • get in wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
  • ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
  • ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
  • ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • giftwrapping — giftwrapping.
  • go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
  • grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
  • gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
  • gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
  • grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
  • gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
  • gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
  • hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
  • hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • high-wrought — highly agitated; overwrought.
  • in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
  • in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
  • in-betweener — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
  • industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
  • internetwork — two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The Internet is the largest internetwork.
  • intertwining — Twist or twine together.
  • intertwisted — Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist.
  • interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
  • interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.
  • interviewing — Present participle of interview.
  • interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
  • interwinding — Present participle of interwind.
  • interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
  • interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
  • interwreathe — To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
  • interwrought — having been interworked
  • inward light — Inner Light.
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
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