12-letter words containing w, e, r, n, i
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- in-betweener — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- internetwork — two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The Internet is the largest internetwork.
- intertwining — Twist or twine together.
- intertwisted — Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist.
- interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
- interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.
- interviewing — Present participle of interview.
- interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
- interwinding — Present participle of interwind.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- interwreathe — To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- lower merion — a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- lower-income — earning less than average
- 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.
- māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
- money cowrie — the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C. moneta (money cowrie) used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C. tigris, used for ornament.