12-letter words containing w, a, u, t
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
- swamp locust — water locust.
- 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
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- team up with — join forces with
- throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm
- throw mud at — to slander; vilify
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- unroadworthy — not mechanically sound or suitable for use on the road
- unwatchfully — in an unwatchful manner
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- utility wear — casual clothing that was originally intended for a particular activity, such as snowboarding or skiing
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- 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 bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying 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 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.
- water turkey — anhinga.
- water vapour — steam
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
- watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- 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.
- white walnut — butternut (def 1).
- 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.
- williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage