12-letter words containing w, e, a, b
- brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
- cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- crumble away — disintegrate
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- edward abbey — Edward, 1927–89, U.S. novelist and nature writer.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- know by name — to have heard of without having met
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
- mean well by — to have good intentions or friendly, helpful feelings toward
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- newtownabbey — a town in Northern Ireland, in Newtownabbey district, Co Antrim on Belfast Lough: the third largest town in Northern Ireland, formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of seven villages; light industrial centre, esp for textiles. Pop: 62 056 (2001)
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.