12-letter words containing w, e, b
- 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.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- webi shebeli — Webi [wey-bi] /ˈweɪ bɪ/ (Show IPA), Webi Shebeli.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- wedded bliss — happiness in marriage
- wedding band — A wedding band is the same as a wedding ring.
- week by week — each week
- weeny-bopper — a child of 8 to 12 years, esp a girl, who is a keen follower of pop music
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- well-beloved — loved deeply and sincerely: my well-beloved fiancé.
- well-blended — to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
- well-blessed — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- whiffle ball — any of various lightweight, hollow plastic balls with several large air holes that cause them to abruptly curve or sink when thrown, hit, etc.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- 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
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- wide-brimmed — (of a hat) having a wide brim
- 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.
- 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
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- woburn abbey — a mansion in Woburn in Bedfordshire: originally an abbey; rebuilt in the 17th century for the Dukes of Bedford, altered by Henry Holland in the 18th century; deer park landscaped by Humphrey Repton
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- 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-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrong number — a call made to a number other than the one intended. the number or person reached through such a call.
- yellow belly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.
- yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
- yellow-belly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.