12-letter words containing d, o, w, l, a
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- lord haw-haw — James (Augustine Aloysius) 1882–1941, Irish novelist.
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- 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.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- 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.
- talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- to draw lots — If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen.
- to hold sway — If someone or something holds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- wall molding — back molding.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- widow's walk — a platform or walk atop a roof, as on certain coastal New England houses of the 18th and early 19th centuries: often used as a lookout for incoming ships.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- window glass — glass used in windows
- wing loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
- wood alcohol — methyl alcohol.
- wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
- wood-swallow — 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.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- world beater — If you describe a person or thing as a world beater, you mean that they are better than most other people or things of their kind.
- world leader — sth that is the best internationally
- world savior — Saoshyant.
- world war ii — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbreviation: WWII.
- world's fair — a large international exposition with exhibitions of arts, crafts, industrial and agricultural products, scientific achievements, etc.
- world-beater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.