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12-letter words containing w, a, t, e, r, p

  • answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
  • antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
  • appletviewer — (web, testing)   A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
  • atomic power — nuclear power.
  • black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
  • computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
  • craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
  • deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
  • dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
  • 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.
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • plate warmer — a device for warming plates
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • private view — a preview, esp of an art exhibition, for specially invited guests
  • property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
  • sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
  • 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-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
  • walter paterWalter 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.

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