11-letter words containing c, e, l, w, a
- lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lech walesa — Lech [lek] /lɛk/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Polish labor leader: a leader of Solidarity 1980; president 1990–96; Nobel Peace Prize 1983.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
- lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
- lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
- luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- pillow lace — bobbin lace.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
- watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
- watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- welcome mat — a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
- whale watch — trip to observe sea mammals
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.