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12-letter words containing l, e, a, w, o

  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • pot-walloper — (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.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • rollaway bed — a bed on castors
  • 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.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • slow-release — sustained-release.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • swallow dive — swan dive.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
  • to mean well — If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
  • toilet water — a scented liquid used as a light perfume; cologne.
  • torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
  • tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
  • unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • 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
  • wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
  • 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.
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