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12-letter words containing w, e, l, d, r

  • low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
  • medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
  • medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
  • middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
  • multitowered — comprising several towers
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
  • nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
  • netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
  • nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
  • oriel window — a bay window, esp one that is supported by one or more brackets or corbels
  • otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
  • overflow pdl — (jargon)   The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
  • overwithhold — to withhold too much.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • reed warbler — a small Old World warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, inhabiting marshy places.
  • renewal date — The renewal date of an existing insurance contract is the date on which it must be renewed.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rollaway bed — a bed on castors
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
  • town dweller — a person who resides in a town
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • twig girdler — a person or thing that girdles.
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • underwhelmed — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • unrewardedly — in an unrewarding manner
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
  • warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
  • water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
  • weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
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