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12-letter words containing e, w, l

  • well-studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
  • well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
  • well-trained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
  • well-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
  • well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
  • well-watered — having rivers or streams: an amply watered area.
  • well-weighed — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
  • well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
  • well-written — a past participle of write.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
  • welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
  • wesley clark — (person)   One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
  • west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
  • west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
  • westerliness — Westerly position.
  • western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
  • western roll — a technique in high-jumping in which the jumper executes a half-turn of the body to clear the bar
  • western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
  • westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
  • wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
  • wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
  • wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
  • wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
  • whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whiffle ball — any of various lightweight, hollow plastic balls with several large air holes that cause them to abruptly curve or sink when thrown, hit, etc.
  • whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
  • whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white alkali — Agriculture. a whitish layer of mineral salts, especially sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulfate, often occurring on top of soils where rainfall is low.
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white flight — the movement of white people, especially middle-class white people, from inner-city neighborhoods undergoing racial integration to the suburbs.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
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