12-letter words containing i, n, l, a, w
- baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
- bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
- bowling ball — a round, heavy ball for bowling, usually made of hard rubber or plastic, with holes drilled into it for the bowler's thumb and two fingers.
- call waiting — Call waiting is a telephone service that sends you a signal if another call arrives while you are already on the phone.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- councilwoman — A councilwoman is a woman who is a member of a local council.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- criminal law — the body of law dealing with the constitution of offences and the punishment of offenders
- curtain wall — a non-load-bearing external wall attached to a framed structure, often one that is prefabricated
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- darning wool — wool used for darning
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- 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).
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
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