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12-letter words containing w, e, l, s, a, t

  • torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
  • tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
  • warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
  • wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
  • wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
  • water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • 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 slater — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
  • water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
  • watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
  • watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
  • watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
  • weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
  • well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
  • well-staffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
  • west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
  • westmorelandWilliam Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
  • wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
  • wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
  • wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
  • wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
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