12-letter words starting with w
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- well advised — If someone says that you would be well advised to do a particular thing, they are advising you to do it.
- well logging — the process or technique of recording a well log.
- well managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- well-adapted — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- well-advised — acting with caution, care, or wisdom: They would be well-advised to sell the stock now.
- well-attired — to dress, array, or adorn, especially for special occasions, ceremonials, etc.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- well-beloved — loved deeply and sincerely: my well-beloved fiancé.
- well-blended — to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
- well-blessed — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-content — fully contented; satisfied.
- well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- well-defined — sharply or clearly stated, outlined, described, etc.: a well-defined character; a well-defined boundary.
- well-devised — Law. the act of disposing of property, especially real property, by will. a will or clause in a will disposing of property, especially real property. the property so disposed of.
- well-drained — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- well-dressed — attired in clothing that is of good quality, is properly fitted, and is appropriate and becoming.
- well-endowed — to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
- well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
- well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-fitting — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
- well-founded — having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
- well-groomed — having the hair, skin, etc., well cared for; well-dressed, clean, and neat: a well-groomed young man.
- well-guarded — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
- well-handled — managed, directed, or completed with efficiency: a well-handled political campaign.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-meaning — meaning or intending well; having good intentions: a well-meaning but tactless person.
- well-merited — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-ordered — arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.
- well-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- well-pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- well-reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.