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11-letter words containing a, d, o, l

  • volsteadism — the policy of prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages.
  • wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
  • wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
  • walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
  • wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
  • weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
  • wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
  • westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
  • whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
  • wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
  • wild orange — laurel cherry.
  • wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
  • willow wand — a slender stick or rod made of willow used especially in magic or divination
  • wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
  • woodswallow — any of several slate-colored songbirds of the family Artamidae, of southeastern Asia, Australia, and New Guinea, having long, pointed wings and noted for their swift, soaring flight.
  • world war i — the war (1914–18), fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, in which the Allies (principally France, Russia, Britain, Italy after 1915, and the US after 1917) defeated the Central Powers (principally Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). The war was precipitated by the assassination of Austria's crown prince (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 and swiftly developed its major front in E France, where millions died in static trench warfare. After the October Revolution (1917) the Bolsheviks ended Russian participation in the war (Dec 15, 1917). The exhausted Central Powers agreed to an armistice on Nov 11, 1918 and quickly succumbed to internal revolution, before being forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) and other treaties
  • world-class — ranking among the world's best; outstanding: a world-class orchestra.
  • world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
  • worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
  • worm lizard — any of numerous burrowing, primarily legless lizards of the suborder Amphisbaenia, mostly inhabiting tropical areas and resembling an earthworm in shape.
  • xenodochial — (rare) Friendly to strangers.
  • xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
  • yard of ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
  • yard-of-ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
  • yellow card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
  • yorba linda — a city in SW California.
  • young adult — a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).
  • zygodactyls — Plural form of zygodactyl.
  • zygodactyly — (anatomy) The condition of having two toes facing forward and two backward, as in some birds and chameleons.
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