12-letter words containing w, i, c
- wedding-cake — highly ornate or overly elaborate: wedding-cake architecture.
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- white coffee — coffee: with milk
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
- wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
- wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
- wild lettuce — any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
- wind machine — a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind
- wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- winter cress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- wire cutters — tool: pliers
- wire service — agency that sends news stories
- wisconsinite — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,154 sq. mi. (145,440 sq. km). Capital: Madison. Abbreviation: WI (for use with zip code), Wis., Wisc.
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- witch doctor — a person in some societies who attempts to cure sickness and to exorcise evil spirits by the use of magic.
- witch hobble — the hobblebush.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
- within reach — close enough to be reached
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
- worried sick — extremely anxious about sb or sth
- wrecking bar — pinch bar.
- wrecking car — a car that is equipped as a wrecker. Compare wrecker (def 2).
- wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.