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12-letter words containing w, a, g

  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
  • sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • swimming cap — A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming.
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
  • swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
  • town manager — an official appointed to direct the administration of a town government.
  • twitch grass — couch grass.
  • underdrawing — the act of sketching a subject before painting it on the same surface
  • unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
  • vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
  • waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.
  • wagon master — wagon boss.
  • wagon-headed — of the form of a round arch or a semicylinder, like the cover of a wagon when stretched over the bows, as a ceiling or roof.
  • wailing wall — a wall in Jerusalem where Jews, on certain occasions, assemble for prayer and lamentation: traditionally believed to be the remains of the western wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70.
  • wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
  • wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
  • waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
  • waitangi day — the national day of New Zealand (Feb 6), commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government. The treaty provided the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • waiting game — a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
  • waiting list — a list of persons waiting, as for reservations, appointments, living accommodations, or admission to a school.
  • waiting room — a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.
  • wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
  • waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
  • waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
  • walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
  • walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
  • walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
  • walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
  • walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
  • walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
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