12-letter words containing w, k, u
- anuszkiewicz — Richard Joseph, born 1930, U.S. op-art painter.
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- keep up with — go as fast
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- public works — government-funded construction
- quick-witted — having a nimble, alert mind.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
- 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-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- 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.
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- water turkey — anhinga.
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- wild pumpkin — calabazilla.
- wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- 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.
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