12-letter words containing l, a, w, b
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- 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.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- 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).
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
- mean well by — to have good intentions or friendly, helpful feelings toward
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- reed warbler — a small Old World warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, inhabiting marshy places.
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- watchability — detectable; apparent.
- water ballet — synchronized movements, patterns, and other visual effects performed in the water by swimmers, usually to a musical accompaniment.
- water beetle — any of various aquatic beetles, as a predaceous diving beetle.
- water bottle — container that holds drinking water
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.