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12-letter words containing w, e, m

  • hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
  • hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
  • heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
  • journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
  • klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
  • know by name — to have heard of without having met
  • lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • lemon yellow — a clear, yellowish-green color.
  • limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
  • little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
  • lower merion — a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
  • lower-income — earning less than average
  • lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
  • mail gateway — (messaging)   A machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (including dissimilar mail systems) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be quite complex, and it generally requires a store and forward scheme whereby the message is received from one system completely before it is transmitted to the next system, after suitable translations.
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
  • make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
  • maritime law — the body of law relating to maritime commerce and navigation, and to maritime matters generally.
  • match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
  • matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • matthew quay — Matthew Stanley, 1833–1904, U.S. politician: senator 1887–99, 1901–4.
  • meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
  • meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
  • meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
  • mean well by — to have good intentions or friendly, helpful feelings toward
  • 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
  • medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
  • meet halfway — to compromise with
  • meet up with — see socially
  • mendel's law — law of segregation.
  • mermaid weed — any of several North American, aquatic plants of the genus Proserpinaca, having pinnately dissected leaves either above or below the water.
  • merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • meteor swarm — any large number of meteoroids moving in parallel paths.
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