12-letter words containing w, i, l, d
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wood's light — ultraviolet light filtered through glass containing nickel oxide, used in detecting forgeries, in detecting microbes in hair, etc.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- world savior — Saoshyant.
- world series — an annual series of games between the winning teams of the two major leagues: the first team to win four games being champions of the U.S.
- world spirit — (often initial capital letters) God.
- world war ii — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbreviation: WWII.
- world's fair — a large international exposition with exhibitions of arts, crafts, industrial and agricultural products, scientific achievements, etc.
- worldly-wise — wise as to the affairs of this world.
- wormseed oil — chenopodium oil.
- yellow daisy — the black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.