12-letter words containing w, o, d, t
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- motown-sound — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- need-to-know — done or given only when it is essential that someone knows something
- nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- network card — network interface controller
- network node — (networking) (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".
- now and then — occasionally
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- orthodox jew — a Jew who adheres faithfully to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism as evidenced chiefly by a devotion to and study of the Torah, daily synagogue attendance if possible, and strict observance of the Sabbath, religious festivals, holy days, and the dietary laws.
- otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
- out and away — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- putty powder — an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
- quieten down — If someone or something quietens down or if you quieten them down, they become less noisy or less active.
- randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- redwood city — a city in W California.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- 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.
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- swift-footed — swift in running.