12-letter words containing w, e, a
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- betweenbrain — the posterior part of the forebrain
- bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- brochureware — (jargon, business) A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
- broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- 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.
- cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carrier wave — a wave of fixed amplitude and frequency that is modulated in amplitude, frequency, or phase in order to carry a signal in radio transmission, etc
- carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- cashew apple — the soft, swollen, pear-shaped stalk of the cashew tree, to which a cashew nut is attached: used in preserves and wine.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
- chair warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
- chair-warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.