12-letter words containing w, r
- interwinding — Present participle of interwind.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- interwreathe — To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- inward light — Inner Light.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- kangaroo paw — any plant of the Australian genus Anigozanthos, resembling a kangaroo's paw, esp the red-and-green flowered A. manglesii, which is the floral emblem of Western Australia: family Haemodoraceae
- kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- killer whale — any of several predatory dolphins, especially the black-and-white Orcinus orca, found in all seas.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
- 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.
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- london brown — carbuncle (def 3).
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- lord haw-haw — James (Augustine Aloysius) 1882–1941, Irish novelist.