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12-letter words containing w, e, a, n

  • waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
  • weaponeering — the act of fitting out with weapons
  • wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
  • weather vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
  • weather-vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
  • weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
  • weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
  • weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
  • weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
  • weavers-knot — sheet bend.
  • weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • wedding band — A wedding band is the same as a wedding ring.
  • wedding cake — tiered cake served at a marriage party
  • wedding-cake — highly ornate or overly elaborate: wedding-cake architecture.
  • weekend case — a case used to pack things for a weekend trip
  • weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
  • weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
  • welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
  • well managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • well-drained — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
  • well-handled — managed, directed, or completed with efficiency: a well-handled political campaign.
  • well-learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
  • well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • well-meaning — meaning or intending well; having good intentions: a well-meaning but tactless person.
  • well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
  • west african — of or relating to West Africa
  • west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
  • western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
  • westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
  • whare wanaga — a university
  • whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
  • whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white walnut — butternut (def 1).
  • whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
  • whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
  • 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.
  • wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
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