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12-letter words containing t, w

  • disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
  • do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
  • dotted swiss — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
  • down and out — downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • down-and-out — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
  • drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
  • dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
  • dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
  • editorial we — we (def 6).
  • eiffel tower — landmark in Paris
  • entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
  • everywhither — (archaic,or,poetic) to everywhere.
  • eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
  • eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
  • factory work — work in a factory
  • fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
  • fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fast forward — advance rapidly through
  • fast-flowing — water: rapid
  • fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
  • fast-growing — growing very quickly
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
  • 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.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • flow control — (communications, protocol)   The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.
  • 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.
  • forward post — the position held by a soldier on the forward line
  • forward rate — the agreed price for something that is to be bought or sold at a later date
  • fourth world — the world's most poverty-stricken nations, especially in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid.
  • fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
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