12-letter words containing a, l, w, e, n
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- railway line — railroad route
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- renewal date — The renewal date of an existing insurance contract is the date on which it must be renewed.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-renewal — the act of renewing.
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
- sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- to mean well — If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unrewardedly — in an unrewarding manner
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
- verner's law — the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm's law, namely, that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding vowel was not accented in Proto-Indo-European.
- waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
- walking leaf — leaf insect.
- walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc