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

  • answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
  • antispinward — (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
  • antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
  • apple newton — (computer)   A Personal Digital Assistant produced by Apple Computer. The Newton provides a clever, user-friendly interface and relies solely on pen-based input. Eagerly anticipated, the Newton uses handwriting recognition software to "learn" the users handwriting and provide reliable character recognition. Various third-party software applications are available and add-on peripherals like wireless modems for Internet access are being sold by Apple Computer, Inc. and its licensees.
  • 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.
  • athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
  • atomic power — nuclear power.
  • attawapiskat — a river in NE Ontario, Canada, flowing E and N to James Bay. 465 miles (748 km) long.
  • barrow point — the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean
  • bathing wrap — a loose robe to wear after bathing, often made of towelling
  • black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
  • chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
  • company town — a town built by a company for its employees
  • 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
  • darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
  • deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • 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.
  • forward post — the position held by a soldier on the forward line
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • giftwrapping — giftwrapping.
  • great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
  • hot swapping — (hardware)   The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
  • new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
  • 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.
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • 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.
  • patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
  • pave the way — be a pioneer
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • plate warmer — a device for warming plates
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • 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.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.

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