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12-letter words containing wi

  • fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
  • french twist — French roll.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
  • general will — (in the philosophy of Rousseau) the source of legitimate authority residing in the collective will as contrasted with individual interests
  • get off with — kiss
  • give wing to — to enable to fly or soar on or as if on wings
  • glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
  • go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
  • halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
  • help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
  • hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • in line with — conforming to
  • in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
  • industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • intertwining — Twist or twine together.
  • intertwisted — Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist.
  • interviewing — Present participle of interview.
  • 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.
  • jesse window — a church window having a representation of the tree of Jesse.
  • joy, william — William Joy
  • keep in with — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep up with — go as fast
  • kiddiewinkie — a child
  • knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
  • lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
  • leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
  • limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
  • line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
  • longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
  • medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
  • meet up with — see socially
  • microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
  • midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
  • mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
  • nonyellowing — that does not become yellow, esp with age
  • not with you — not able to grasp or follow what you are saying
  • off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
  • opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
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