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12-letter words containing w, e, n

  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
  • cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
  • career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • center wheel — the wheel driving the minute and hour hands of a timepiece.
  • chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
  • chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
  • chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
  • chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
  • chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
  • clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
  • clos network — (networking)   A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
  • clownishness — The state of being clownish.
  • co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
  • come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
  • come down on — If you come down on one side of an argument, you declare that you support that side.
  • come down to — If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved.
  • common shrew — a small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, Sorex araneus, of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
  • content word — a word to which an independent meaning can be given by reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur
  • contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
  • corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
  • cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
  • councilwomen — Plural form of councilwoman.
  • counter word — any word freely used as a general term of approval or disapproval without reference to its more exact meaning, as nice, terrible, lousy, terrific
  • counter-view — an opposing or contrasting opinion.
  • counter-word — a word, often of short-lived popularity, widely used as an almost meaningless, automatic response.
  • counterpower — an opposing power
  • counterweigh — counterbalance
  • counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
  • counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
  • countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
  • cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
  • crawler lane — a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles
  • crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
  • cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
  • croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
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