12-letter words containing l, e, a, s, w, i
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- well advised — If someone says that you would be well advised to do a particular thing, they are advising you to do it.
- well-advised — acting with caution, care, or wisdom: They would be well-advised to sell the stock now.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- windlestraws — Plural form of windlestraw.
- wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
- wollastonite — a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- yellow daisy — the black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.