11-letter words containing e, w
- law student — sb who studies legal system
- law-breaker — A law-breaker is someone who breaks the law.
- lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
- lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
- lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherwear — clothing and accessories made of leather.
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- lech walesa — Lech [lek] /lɛk/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Polish labor leader: a leader of Solidarity 1980; president 1990–96; Nobel Peace Prize 1983.
- leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
- lie in wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- lightweight — light in weight.
- lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- littleworth — worthless; of little value
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- long-winded — talking or writing at tedious length: long-winded after-dinner speakers.
- loose-weave — loosely woven
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- low profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
- low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
- low-context — tending to communicate by electronic methods such as e-mail, rather than in person
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- low-pitched — pitched in a low register or key: a low-pitched aria for the basso.
- low-powered — having little power or capacity
- low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
- low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
- low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction