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17-letter words containing e, l, w, a

  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • follow the leader — a child's game in which players, one behind the other, follow a leader and must repeat or follow everything he or she does.
  • for all the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • fort leonard wood — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SW Missouri, SW of Rolla.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • four-rowed barley — a class of barley having, in each spike, six rows of grain, with two pairs of rows overlapping.
  • frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
  • fuzzy-wuzzy angel — any native of Papua New Guinea who assisted as a stretcher-bearer in World War II
  • general knowledge — commonly known facts
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • guerrilla warfare — the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
  • illinois waterway — a waterway system in N Illinois made up of canals and rivers connecting Lake Michigan in Chicago with the Mississippi River. 336 miles (541 km) long.
  • in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
  • international law — the body of rules that nations generally recognize as binding in their conduct toward one another.
  • know only by name — to be familiar with the name of but not know personally
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
  • lake winnipegosis — a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba. Area: 5400 sq km (2086 sq miles)
  • law of reflection — the principle that when a ray of light, radar pulse, or the like, is reflected from a smooth surface the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, and the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of refraction — the principle that for a ray, radar pulse, or the like, that is incident on the interface of two media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the ray in the first medium to the velocity in the second medium and the incident ray, refracted ray, and normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • lie in wait (for) — to wait so as to catch after planning an ambush or trap (for)
  • light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • manpower planning — a procedure used in organizations to balance future requirements for all levels of employee with the availability of such employees
  • manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
  • maxwell equations — equations developed by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79) upon which classical electromagnetic theory is based
  • may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
  • mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • mileage allowance — the number of miles allowed to be travelled on a rented vehicle such as a car during the period it is rented or leased
  • minion of the law — a policeman.
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