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12-letter words containing w, a, n, t, i

  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • 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
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
  • militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
  • 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.
  • new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
  • new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
  • night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
  • nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
  • nonnewtonian — Not Newtonian.
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • stanisław ii — surnamed Poniatowski. 1732–98, the last king of Poland (1764–95), during whose reign Poland was repeatedly invaded and partitioned (1772, 1791, 1795) by its neighbours: abdicated
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • tapioca snow — snow pellets.
  • time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
  • twin paradox — a phenomenon predicted by relativity. One of a pair of identical twins is supposed to live normally in an inertial system whilst the other is accelerated to a high speed in a spaceship, travels for a long time, and finally returns to rest beside his twin. The travelled twin will be found to be younger than his brother
  • 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.
  • wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
  • wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
  • waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
  • wait and see — If you tell someone to wait and see, you tell them that they must be patient or that they must not worry about what is going to happen in the future because they have no control over it.
  • 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.
  • 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 tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
  • walkingstick — a stick used for walking
  • warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
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