12-letter words containing w, a, r, p, t
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- water pepper — a widely distributed annual plant, Polygonum hydropiper, of marshes and bogs, characterized by acrid, peppery-tasting leaves.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- water vapour — steam
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- waterproofer — One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- 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.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- worlds apart — in different environments
- wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.