12-letter words containing w, a, i, c
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
- wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- walkingstick — a stick used for walking
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- watchability — detectable; apparent.
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- water coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
- watering can — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- wedding cake — tiered cake served at a marriage party
- wedding-cake — highly ornate or overly elaborate: wedding-cake architecture.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- 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.
- wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
- willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
- wind machine — a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
- within reach — close enough to be reached
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.