12-letter words containing w, a, r, s
- war of words — argument
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- warning sign — sth that indicates danger
- warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
- wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
- washer-dryer — a washing machine and a clothes dryer combined in one unit.
- wastage rate — the drop-out rate from a company, college, or other organization, especially before they have completed their education or training
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- water slater — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- 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 system — a river and all its branches.
- water thrush — either of two North American warblers, Seirus noveboracensis or S. motacilla, usually living near streams.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- waterishness — the state of being waterish
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weather-wise — skillful in predicting weather.
- weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- 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.
- 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.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- 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)