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12-letter words containing e, w, l

  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • prayer wheel — a wheel or cylinder inscribed with or containing prayers, used chiefly by Buddhists of Tibet.
  • property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
  • railway line — railroad route
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • reed warbler — a small Old World warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, inhabiting marshy places.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renewal date — The renewal date of an existing insurance contract is the date on which it must be renewed.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rollaway bed — a bed on castors
  • roller towel — a long towel sewed together at the ends and hung on a roller.
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
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