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12-letter words containing l, a, w, f

  • law of areas — 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)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • meet halfway — to compromise with
  • newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
  • off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • unwatchfully — in an unwatchful manner
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • waffle weave — a textile weave that produces a textured pattern resembling the surface of a waffle.
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • water filter — device for removing impurities from water
  • waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
  • welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
  • welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
  • well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • well-staffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
  • whiffle ball — any of various lightweight, hollow plastic balls with several large air holes that cause them to abruptly curve or sink when thrown, hit, etc.
  • windfall tax — a tax levied on an organization considered to have made excessive profits, esp a privatized utility company that has exploited a monopoly
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
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