13-letter words containing g, w, a, l
- lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
- lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
- mangel-wurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
- might as well — have no reason not to
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- multimegawatt — producing or involving several million watts of power
- negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- new ball game — a new or changed situation: Once we're out of debt it'll be a whole new ball game.
- new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- speed walking — power walking.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
- town planning — city planning.
- training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- water leguaan — a large amphibious monitor lizard, Varanus niloticus, which can grow up to 2 or 3 m
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.