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12-letter words containing w, a, t, l, e

  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
  • to mean well — If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
  • toilet water — a scented liquid used as a light perfume; cologne.
  • torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
  • travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
  • tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
  • trial lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in appearing before trial courts.
  • tube railway — subway (def 1).
  • utility wear — casual clothing that was originally intended for a particular activity, such as snowboarding or skiing
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
  • wall-mounted — hung on a wall
  • walnut creek — a town in W California.
  • walter mitty — an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life.
  • walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
  • waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
  • warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
  • wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
  • wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • water ballet — synchronized movements, patterns, and other visual effects performed in the water by swimmers, usually to a musical accompaniment.
  • water beetle — any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
  • water bottle — container that holds drinking water
  • water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
  • water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
  • water cooler — a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
  • water filter — device for removing impurities from water
  • 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 splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
  • water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
  • water willow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Justicia, of the acanthus family, growing in water or wet places, especially J. americana, of North America, having clusters of pale violet to white flowers.
  • water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
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