12-letter words containing w, e, l, p
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- 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.
- well-adapted — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
- well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- well-pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- well-reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- yellow pages — Network Information Service
- yellow perch — See under perch2 (def 1).
- yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.