12-letter words containing w, a, u, s
- sweat equity — unreimbursed labor that results in the increased value of property or that is invested to establish or expand an enterprise.
- sweat it out — wait tensely
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- underdrawers — an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs. Compare drawer (def 2).
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- unwashedness — the quality or state of being unwashed
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- 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 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 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 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.
- watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- white russia — Belorussia
- white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- world-famous — famous throughout the world: a world-famous film.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- wusuli jiang — Ussuri.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.