12-letter words starting with w
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- well-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- well-staffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- well-studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- well-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- well-watered — having rivers or streams: an amply watered area.
- well-weighed — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- well-written — a past participle of write.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- westerliness — Westerly position.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- western roll — a technique in high-jumping in which the jumper executes a half-turn of the body to clear the bar
- western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
- westernizing — Present participle of westernize.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- whare wanaga — a university
- what a lark! — how amusing!
- what is more — moreover, in addition