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12-letter words containing w, r, i, t, e

  • westerliness — Westerly position.
  • westernizing — Present participle of westernize.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
  • white ginger — a tall plant, Hedychium coronarium, of the ginger family, native to tropical Asia, having long, broad leaves and showy, fragrant white flowers.
  • white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white matter — nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color. Compare gray matter (def 1).
  • white pepper — a condiment prepared from the husked dried berries of the pepper plant, used either whole or ground.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white russia — Belorussia
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
  • white-haired — having hair that is white.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • whitherwards — toward what or which place
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
  • wine steward — a waiter in a restaurant or club who is in charge of wine; sommelier.
  • winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
  • winter break — a period of vacation between semesters of colleges, universities, or other schools and usually including the winter holidays.
  • winter cress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
  • winter haven — a city in central Florida.
  • winter hedge — a clothes horse
  • winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
  • winter wheat — wheat that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
  • winter-hardy — able to survive the effects of cold weather.
  • winterbourne — a channel filled only at a time of excessive rainfall.
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