12-letter words containing w, a
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- wood-swallow — any of several slate-colored songbirds of the family Artamidae, of southeastern Asia, Australia, and New Guinea, having long, pointed wings and noted for their swift, soaring flight.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- 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.
- work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working rail — fly rail (def 2).
- workingwoman — a woman who is regularly employed.
- workstations — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world leader — sth that is the best internationally
- world savior — Saoshyant.
- world war ii — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbreviation: WWII.
- world's fair — a large international exposition with exhibitions of arts, crafts, industrial and agricultural products, scientific achievements, etc.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- world-famous — famous throughout the world: a world-famous film.
- world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
- worlds apart — in different environments
- worst of all — You say worst of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the most unpleasant or has the most disadvantages out of all the things you are mentioning.
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- wrap account — a personally managed investment account where charges are levied on the basis of the account's total assets.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrecking car — a car that is equipped as a wrecker. Compare wrecker (def 2).
- wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- writing case — a portable folder with compartments for holding writing materials
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- wusuli jiang — Ussuri.
- władysław ii — original name Jogaila. ?1351–1434, grand duke of Lithuania (1377–1401) and king of Poland (1386–1434). He united Lithuania and Poland and founded the Jagiellon dynasty
- władysław iv — 1595–1648, king of Poland (1632–48)
- yarrow-river — a river in SE Scotland, flowing into the Tweed. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- yellow alert — (in military or civilian defense) the first alert given when enemy aircraft are discovered approaching a military installation, city, coastline, etc. Compare blue alert, red alert, white alert.
- yellow avens — herb bennet.
- yellow daisy — the black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.
- yellow metal — a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
- yellow pages — Network Information Service
- yellow sally — an angler's name for either of two small yellow stoneflies: Isoperla grammatica of chalk streams and Chloroperla torrentium of upland streams
- yellowhammer — a common European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, the male of which is marked with bright yellow.
- yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yellowthroat — any of several American warblers of the genus Geothlypis, having a throat that is yellow, especially the common yellowthroat, G. trichas.
- 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.