12-letter words containing t, w, i, r
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- westerliness — Westerly position.
- westernizing — Present participle of westernize.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
- whereagainst — against which
- wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
- wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
- whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
- white ginger — a tall plant, Hedychium coronarium, of the ginger family, native to tropical Asia, having long, broad leaves and showy, fragrant white flowers.
- white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white matter — nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color. Compare gray matter (def 1).
- white pepper — a condiment prepared from the husked dried berries of the pepper plant, used either whole or ground.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
- white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
- white russia — Belorussia
- white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
- white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
- 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.
- white-haired — having hair that is white.
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
- whitherwards — toward what or which place
- whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
- wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
- wilton manor — a town in S Florida.
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.