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11-letter words containing a, l, w, e, n

  • lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • lie in wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
  • lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
  • living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
  • megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
  • middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • mineral wax — ozocerite.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
  • needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
  • new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
  • new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
  • new ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
  • new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
  • new realism — neorealism.
  • new zealand — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • non-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
  • sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
  • shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • snell's law — the law that, for a ray incident on the interface of two media, the sine of the angle of incidence times the index of refraction of the first medium is equal to the sine of the angle of refraction times the index of refraction of the second medium.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • the tynwald — the Parliament of the Isle of Man, consisting of the crown, lieutenant governor, House of Keys, and legislative council
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