12-letter words containing w, e, k, r
- water jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water turkey — anhinga.
- water worker — a person employed in the water industry
- water-jacket — to surround or fit with a water jacket.
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- weak-hearted — without courage or fortitude; fainthearted.
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
- wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wonderworker — A person who performs miracles or wonders.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- work to rule — If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions.
- work wonders — have a transforming effect
- work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- working week — A working week is the amount of time during a normal week that you spend doing your job.
- workingwomen — a woman who is regularly employed.
- worklessness — (British) Unemployment; the state of being without paid work.
- workmistress — a woman who oversees or controls work
- world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
- worried sick — extremely anxious about sb or sth
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrecking car — a car that is equipped as a wrecker. Compare wrecker (def 2).
- writing desk — a piece of furniture with a surface for writing, with drawers and pigeonholes for writing materials.
- wunderkinder — Plural form of wunderkind.
- youth worker — A youth worker is a person whose job involves providing support and social activities for young people, especially young people from poor backgrounds.