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12-letter words starting with w

  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white potato — potato (def 1).
  • white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white russia — Belorussia
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
  • white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
  • white walnut — butternut (def 1).
  • white willow — a willow tree, Salix alba, of Europe and Asia having leaves with pale undersides
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
  • white-haired — having hair that is white.
  • white-headed — white-haired (def 1).
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white-washed — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
  • whitherwards — toward what or which place
  • whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
  • whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
  • whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
  • whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • whole-hogger — a person who is whole-heartedly committed to something
  • whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
  • whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whomping big — impressively large
  • whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
  • whore-monger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
  • whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
  • whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
  • wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
  • wide-brimmed — (of a hat) having a wide brim
  • wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
  • wide-ranging — extending over a large area; extensive or diversified in scope: wide-ranging lands; a wide-ranging discussion.
  • wideband atm — (networking)   An enhanced form of ATM networking that transfers digital data over local area networks, originally at 0.96 Gbps, now (Aug 1996) at 1.0 Gbps.
  • widow's mite — a small contribution given cheerfully by one who can ill afford it. Mark 12:41–44.
  • widow's peak — a point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
  • widow's walk — a platform or walk atop a roof, as on certain coastal New England houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries: often used as a lookout for incoming ships.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • 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
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