12-letter words containing w, i, t
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
- counter-view — an opposing or contrasting opinion.
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- crime writer — a writer who writes detective fiction
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- curtain wall — a non-load-bearing external wall attached to a framed structure, often one that is prefabricated
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- dotted swiss — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
- 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.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
- 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.
- fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- french twist — French roll.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- 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.