12-letter words containing w, k, r, o
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
- pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
- postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- power broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
- power-broker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- public works — government-funded construction
- ring network — (networking, topology) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
- sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- sparrow hawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- streetworker — a social worker who works with youths of a neighborhood.
- trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water worker — a person employed in the water industry
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- windsor knot — a wide, triangular knot for tying a four-in-hand necktie.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wonderworker — A person who performs miracles or wonders.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- work station — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- work through — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- work to rule — If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions.