12-letter words containing w, e, t, b
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- newtownabbey — a town in Northern Ireland, in Newtownabbey district, Co Antrim on Belfast Lough: the third largest town in Northern Ireland, formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of seven villages; light industrial centre, esp for textiles. Pop: 62 056 (2001)
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- 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
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- wastebaskets — Plural form of wastebasket.
- water ballet — synchronized movements, patterns, and other visual effects performed in the water by swimmers, usually to a musical accompaniment.
- water bearer — Aquarius.
- water beetle — any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
- water bomber — an aircraft with special tanks for holding water that can be dropped on forest fires
- water bottle — container that holds drinking water
- water bouget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
- 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.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- 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.
- wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
- winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
- winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
- winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.