12-letter words containing w, e, i
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- 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.
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- checkweigher — a person or machine that measures the weight of commodities on a production line or in a colliery
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
- city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- councilwomen — Plural form of councilwoman.
- counter-view — an opposing or contrasting opinion.
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- curliewurlie — an extremely curled or twisted object or ornament
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- devon minnow — a spinning lure intended to imitate the swimming motion of a minnow
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- dotted swiss — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.