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12-letter words containing e, w, l

  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
  • white walnut — butternut (def 1).
  • white willow — a willow tree, Salix alba, of Europe and Asia having leaves with pale undersides
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
  • whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
  • whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • whole-hogger — a person who is whole-heartedly committed to something
  • whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
  • whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
  • wild lettuce — any of various uncultivated species of lettuce, growing as weeds in fields and waste places, especially a North American species, Lactuca canadensis.
  • wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
  • wildernesses — Plural form of wilderness.
  • wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
  • wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
  • will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
  • williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage
  • wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
  • windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
  • window ledge — outdoors: bottom edge of a window
  • wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
  • winter blues — a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness associated with experiencing the cold and darkness of winter
  • winter melon — a variety of late-keeping muskmelon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a sweet, edible flesh.
  • winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
  • wishing well — a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.
  • witch hobble — the hobblebush.
  • withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
  • withholdment — the act of withholding
  • wobble board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument, producing a characteristic sound when flexed
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
  • wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
  • wolf-ferrari — Ermanno [er-mahn-naw] /ɛrˈmɑn nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1948, Italian composer.
  • wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
  • wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
  • womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
  • wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
  • wood warbler — warbler (def 2).
  • woodlessness — the state of having no wood
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