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12-letter words containing wi

  • wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
  • wild lettuce — any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
  • wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
  • wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
  • wild parsnip — a strong-smelling umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, that has an inedible root: the ancestor of the cultivated parsnip
  • wild pumpkin — calabazilla.
  • wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
  • wild vanilla — vanilla plant.
  • wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
  • wildernesses — Plural form of wilderness.
  • wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
  • wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • william laud — William, 1573–1645, archbishop of Canterbury and opponent of Puritanism: executed for treason.
  • william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
  • williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
  • williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage
  • willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
  • willow south — a city in S Alaska, about 113 km (70 miles) northwest of Anchorage: chosen as the site of the projected new state capital in 1976
  • wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
  • wilton manor — a town in S Florida.
  • wind erosion — the erosion, transportation, and deposition of topsoil by the wind, especially in dust storms.
  • wind machine — a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind
  • wind turbine — a turbine powered by the wind.
  • wind-sucking — cribbing (def 1).
  • windbreakers — Plural form of windbreaker.
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • windfall tax — a tax levied on an organization considered to have made excessive profits, esp a privatized utility company that has exploited a monopoly
  • winding drum — a rotating drum usually grooved to nest a wire rope which is wound onto it as part of the mechanism of a hoist
  • windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
  • window blind — window shade.
  • window board — a thin board serving as a stool of a window.
  • window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
  • window glass — glass used in windows
  • window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
  • window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
  • windows 2000 — (operating system)   (Win2k, W2k, NT5, Windows NT 5.0) An operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation for PCs and servers, as the successor to Windows NT 4.0. Early beta versions were referred to as "Windows NT 5.0". Windows 2000 was officially released on 2000-02-17. Windows 2000 is most commonly used on Intel x86 and Pentium processors, with a DEC Alpha version rumoured. Unlike Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 is not available for PowerPC or MIPS. Windows 2000's user interface is very similar to Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 with integrated Internet Explorer, or to Windows 98. It is available in four flavours: - Professional: the client version, meant for desktop workstations, successor to Windows NT Workstation. - Server: "entry-level" server, designed for small deployments, and departmental file, print, or intranet servers. - Advanced Server: high throughput, larger scale servers and applications, and small to medium scale websites. - Data Center Server: software for large-scale server clusters (in development as of 2000-03-14). New features in Windows 2000 include: - Active Directory. - Greatly improved built-in security mechanisms, including Kerberos-based authentication, public key support, an encrypting file system, and IPsec support. - Integrated web browser - Internet Explorer 5.0. - Integrated web server - IIS 5.0 - Terminal services for displaying application interfaces on remote computers (similar to X-Windows). - File protection that prevents user programs from accidentally deleting or overwriting critical system files. - Improved hardware support, including Plug-and-Play, DVD, IEEE-1394 (FireWire), USB, infra-red, PCMCIA, ACPI, laptop computers. - Improved user interface, including a single point to control the entire system. - Improved management tools, including remote administration. Minimum system requirements, according to Microsoft, are Pentium-133 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 650 MB of hard disk space. These are for W2K Professional, others require more. Many operating systems compete with Windows 2000, including the Apple MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, SGI Irix. Novell's NDS also provides a service similar to Active Directory. Windows 2000 will be followed by Windows XP Professional and Windows 2002.
  • windows 3.11 — (operating system)   A free minor bug-fix for Windows 3.1.
  • windows nt 4 — (operating system)   A version of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, originally code named "Cairo". It was supposed to ship in the first half of 1995. Details are scarce, but it is intended to provide an object-oriented version of Windows.
  • windows nt 5 — Windows 2000
  • windsor knot — a wide, triangular knot for tying a four-in-hand necktie.
  • wine steward — a waiter in a restaurant or club who is in charge of wine; sommelier.
  • wine tasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
  • wine vinegar — condiment made of fermented wine
  • wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
  • winetastings — Plural form of winetasting.
  • wing formula — a numerical representation of the relative lengths of the primary feathers of a bird's wing, used in identifying similar species, as flycatchers.
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