12-letter words containing c, e, l, w
- curliewurlie — an extremely curled or twisted object or ornament
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- lower school — a school that is preparatory to one on a more advanced level.
- lower-income — earning less than average
- lyric writer — someone who writes lyrics
- majolicaware — goods made from majolica
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- new rochelle — a city in SE New York, near New York City.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
- owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- sweet cicely — any of several plants, as a European plant, Myrrhis odorata, of the parsley family, used as a potherb, or certain related North American plants of the genus Osmorhiza.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.