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12-letter words containing w, a

  • whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
  • whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
  • whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
  • whiskey jack — gray jay.
  • white alkali — Agriculture. a whitish layer of mineral salts, especially sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulfate, often occurring on top of soils where rainfall is low.
  • white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white matter — nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color. Compare gray matter (def 1).
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white potato — potato (def 1).
  • white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white russia — Belorussia
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • 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).
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-haired — having hair that is white.
  • white-headed — white-haired (def 1).
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white-washed — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
  • whitherwards — toward what or which place
  • whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
  • whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
  • wide-ranging — extending over a large area; extensive or diversified in scope: wide-ranging lands; a wide-ranging discussion.
  • wideband atm — (networking)   An enhanced form of ATM networking that transfers digital data over local area networks, originally at 0.96 Gbps, now (Aug 1996) at 1.0 Gbps.
  • widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
  • widow's walk — a platform or walk atop a roof, as on certain coastal New England houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries: often used as a lookout for incoming ships.
  • wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
  • wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
  • wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
  • wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
  • wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
  • wild vanilla — vanilla plant.
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
  • wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • william laud — William, 1573–1645, archbishop of Canterbury and opponent of Puritanism: executed for treason.
  • william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
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