12-letter words containing w, a, l, r
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- well-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-watered — having rivers or streams: an amply watered area.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- what a lark! — how amusing!
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
- wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
- whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- 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 slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- 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-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
- wilton manor — a town in S Florida.
- windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
- wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- wolf-ferrari — Ermanno [er-mahn-naw] /ɛrˈmɑn nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1948, Italian composer.
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world leader — sth that is the best internationally
- world savior — Saoshyant.
- world war ii — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbreviation: WWII.
- world's fair — a large international exposition with exhibitions of arts, crafts, industrial and agricultural products, scientific achievements, etc.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- world-famous — famous throughout the world: a world-famous film.
- world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
- worlds apart — in different environments