12-letter words containing the
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- up the creek — U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
- up the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- up the spout — If you say that something is up the spout, you mean that it is wrong or it is no longer working.
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
- wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
- weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weather tide — a tide moving against the direction of the wind.
- weather vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- weather-vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- weather-wise — skillful in predicting weather.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
- weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- weathertight — secure against wind, rain, etc.
- weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
- weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- whitherwards — toward what or which place
- wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
- witheredness — The state of being withered.
- withersoever — To wherever, to anywhere.
- woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
- wordsmithery — the craft or skill of a wordsmith
- would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
- xanthene dye — any of a group of dyes having a molecular structure related to that of xanthene in which the aromatic (C 6 H 4) groups are the chromophore.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
- zooxanthella — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.