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11-letter words containing l, a, w, t, o

  • patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
  • pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
  • stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • strand wolf — brown hyena.
  • straw color — a pale yellow similar to the color of straw.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • swallowtail — the tail of a swallow or a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow.
  • swallowwort — celandine (def 1).
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • tallow tree — a small tree, Sapium sebiferum, of the spurge family, cultivated in China and the tropics, having popcorn-shaped seeds with a waxy coating that is used for soap, candles, and oil.
  • tallow wood — a tall eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus microcorys, of coastal regions, having soft fibrous bark and conical fruits and yielding a greasy timber
  • tally-woman — a mistress
  • the gallows — execution by hanging
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • two old cat — one old cat played with two batters.
  • wagon vault — barrel vault.
  • waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
  • walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • water lemon — yellow granadilla.
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
  • watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
  • watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
  • watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
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