12-letter words containing w, e, m
- water hammer — the concussion and accompanying noise that result when a volume of water moving in a pipe suddenly stops or loses momentum.
- water meadow — a meadow kept fertile by flooding.
- water system — a river and all its branches.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
- weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
- weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- well managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-groomed — having the hair, skin, etc., well cared for; well-dressed, clean, and neat: a well-groomed young man.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-meaning — meaning or intending well; having good intentions: a well-meaning but tactless person.
- well-merited — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
- whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
- whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- 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.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white matter — nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color. Compare gray matter (def 1).
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whore-monger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- wide-brimmed — (of a hat) having a wide brim
- wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
- wideband atm — (networking) An enhanced form of ATM networking that transfers digital data over local area networks, originally at 0.96 Gbps, now (Aug 1996) at 1.0 Gbps.
- widow's mite — a small contribution given cheerfully by one who can ill afford it. Mark 12:41–44.
- wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
- william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
- william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
- wind machine — a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind
- window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
- winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
- wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
- wisenheimers — Plural form of wisenheimer.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.