12-letter words containing w, i, t, e, d
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
- quieten down — If someone or something quietens down or if you quieten them down, they become less noisy or less active.
- ready-witted — having a quick wit or intelligence.
- redwood city — a city in W California.
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- thick-witted — lacking intelligence; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
- thitherwards — in that direction
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- trigger word — a word that initiates a process or course of action
- twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
- twig girdler — a person or thing that girdles.
- twin-engined — (of an aircraft) having two engines
- twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
- twitterpated — excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- underwetting — Underwetting is a condition which affects the packing surface in a distillation vessel, and makes the liquid film on the surface break up.
- underwriting — the act of undertaking to purchase at an agreed price any unsold portion of a public issue of shares etc
- underwritten — past participle of underwrite.
- wait and see — If you tell someone to wait and see, you tell them that they must be patient or that they must not worry about what is going to happen in the future because they have no control over it.
- warp-knitted — designating a fabric made by warp knitting.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- 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
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weather tide — a tide moving against the direction of the wind.
- weft-knitted — noting or pertaining to a fabric made by weft knitting.
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- well-attired — to dress, array, or adorn, especially for special occasions, ceremonials, etc.
- well-merited — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- well-studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.