12-letter words containing w, a, r
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
- drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
- drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
- dwarf mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- editorial we — we (def 6).
- edward abbey — Edward, 1927–89, U.S. novelist and nature writer.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- evening wear — smart clothing designed for wearing at formal occasions during the evening
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- factory work — work in a factory
- fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
- fall forward — (communications) A feature of a modem protocol where two modems which fall back to a lower speed because of data corruption can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- far and away — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- far and wide — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fast forward — advance rapidly through
- fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- feed-forward — A multi-layer perceptron network in which the outputs from all neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts) go to following but not preceding layers, so there are no feedback loops.
- ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.