12-letter words containing w, o, r, n
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
- crowned head — a monarch
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fennelflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nigella, of the buttercup family, especially N. sativa, the seeds of which are used, especially in the East, as a condiment and medicine.
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- flow control — (communications, protocol) The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
- 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.
- get in wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gordian worm — nematomorph.
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- granny woman — midwife (def 1).
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.