12-letter words containing u, n, s, w
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- 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
- wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
- wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wondrousness — The quality of being wondrous.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- wusuli jiang — Ussuri.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.