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12-letter words containing w, e, t, p

  • twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
  • up the wazoo — the anus.
  • walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
  • walter pater — Walter Horatio, 1839–94, English critic, essayist, and novelist.
  • warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
  • watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
  • water pepper — a widely distributed annual plant, Polygonum hydropiper, of marshes and bogs, characterized by acrid, peppery-tasting leaves.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
  • water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
  • water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
  • water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
  • water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
  • water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
  • water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
  • water vapour — steam
  • watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
  • waterproofer — One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
  • weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
  • weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • well-adapted — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
  • well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • well-reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
  • west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
  • west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
  • west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
  • western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
  • wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
  • whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
  • white pepper — a condiment prepared from the husked dried berries of the pepper plant, used either whole or ground.
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white potato — potato (def 1).
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
  • wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
  • woodburytype — a process using gelatine film exposed to the negative, which is then pressed into lead and processed, or a print of this type
  • wool stapler — a dealer in wool.
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