12-letter words containing w, e, n, i
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- devon minnow — a spinning lure intended to imitate the swimming motion of a minnow
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dripping wet — If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is dripping from you.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- evening gown — a special dress, usually a long one, that a woman wears to a formal occasion in the evening
- evening wear — smart clothing designed for wearing at formal occasions during the evening
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
- far and wide — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fencing wire — a heavy-gauge galvanized wire used for farm fences
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- flowing well — A flowing well is a well which can produce oil or gas without the use of a mechanical pump.
- flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- french twist — French roll.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gale warning — U.S. Meteorology. a National Weather Service warning of sustained winds at sea having speeds in the range 34–47 knots (39–54 mph, 17–24 m/sec). Compare warning (def 3).
- general will — (in the philosophy of Rousseau) the source of legitimate authority residing in the collective will as contrasted with individual interests
- genital wart — one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
- get in wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- give wing to — to enable to fly or soar on or as if on wings
- green-wellie — characterizing or belonging to the upper-class set devoted to hunting, shooting, and fishing
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.