12-letter words containing w, a, n, i
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in a bad way — not good in any manner or degree.
- in a big way — very much, greatly
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
- interwreathe — To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- mall walking — recreational or aerobic walking done in the confines of a shopping mall.
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- minimum wage — lowest hourly earnings permitted by law
- minimum-wage — of or relating to a minimum wage: minimum-wage demands.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- mulligatawny — a curry-flavored soup of East Indian origin, made with chicken or meat stock.
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- new canadian — a recent immigrant to Canada