12-letter words containing i, l, w
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- 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
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- 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.
- hanging wall — Mining. the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare footwall (def 1).
- harmonic 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)
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- 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.
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- hollywoodish — of, relating to, or resembling Hollywood, Hollywoodians, or the products of Hollywood and the motion-picture industry.
- howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
- in full flow — Someone who is in full flow is talking easily and continuously and seems likely to go on talking for some time.
- in line with — conforming to
- in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- joy, william — William Joy
- killer whale — any of several predatory dolphins, especially the black-and-white Orcinus orca, found in all seas.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
- legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- light-weight — light displacement.
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
- little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
- little-known — not widely known; not famed
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.