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12-letter words containing w, e, n, i, s

  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • swainishness — loutishness
  • sweetishness — the quality of being sweetish
  • swimmingness — tearfulness
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
  • tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the twenties — the years numbered 20–29 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
  • twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
  • twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
  • twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
  • unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
  • unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
  • unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
  • unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
  • vienna woods — Wienerwald.
  • viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • wait and see — If you tell someone to wait and see, you tell them that they must be patient or that they must not worry about what is going to happen in the future because they have no control over it.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
  • washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
  • waterishness — the state of being waterish
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
  • waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
  • web designer — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
  • weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
  • weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
  • well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
  • west african — of or relating to West Africa
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
  • west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
  • westerliness — Westerly position.
  • westernizing — Present participle of westernize.
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
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