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12-letter words containing e, w, l

  • flower power — Flower power is an old-fashioned way of referring to hippies and the culture associated with hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • flowing well — A flowing well is a well which can produce oil or gas without the use of a mechanical pump.
  • flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
  • followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
  • forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
  • four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
  • fribble away — to use wastefully
  • full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gale warning — U.S. Meteorology. a National Weather Service warning of sustained winds at sea having speeds in the range 34–47 knots (39–54 mph, 17–24 m/sec). Compare warning (def 3).
  • gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
  • gallows tree — a gallows.
  • general will — (in the philosophy of Rousseau) the source of legitimate authority residing in the collective will as contrasted with individual interests
  • genital wart — one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
  • gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
  • globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
  • go whole hog — Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
  • golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
  • gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
  • green-wellie — characterizing or belonging to the upper-class set devoted to hunting, shooting, and fishing
  • grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
  • half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
  • halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
  • halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
  • hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
  • hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
  • hello, world — (programming)   The canonical, minimal, first program that a programmer writes in a new programming language or development environment. The program just prints "hello, world" to standard output in order to verify that the programmer can successfully edit, compile and run a simple program before embarking on anything more challenging. Hello, world is the first example program in the C programming book, K&R, and the tradition has spread from there to pretty much every other language and many of their textbooks. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad.
  • help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
  • hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • hollow newel — a narrow wellhole in a winding staircase.
  • hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
  • hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
  • hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
  • hotel worker — a person who works in the hotel industry
  • hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
  • in line with — conforming to
  • in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • jawless fish — cyclostome.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
  • just as well — fortunate
  • kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
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