12-letter words containing w, e, t, i
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- 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.
- editorial we — we (def 6).
- eiffel tower — landmark in Paris
- everywhither — (archaic,or,poetic) to everywhere.
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
- fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- french twist — French roll.
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- 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.
- get off with — kiss
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
- give wing to — to enable to fly or soar on or as if on wings
- gravity wave — Astronomy, Physics. gravitational wave.
- grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- 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.
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- in line with — conforming to
- in the white — (of wood or furniture) left unpainted or unvarnished
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- 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.