11-letter words containing l, w, a
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- water glass — a drinking glass; tumbler.
- water inlet — opening designed to let water in
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- water level — the surface level of any body of water.
- water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- water plant — a plant that grows in water.
- water slide — flume
- water snail — Archimedes' screw.
- water table — the planar, underground surface beneath which earth materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water.
- water wheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- 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.
- watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
- waterslides — Plural form of waterslide.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- way of life — lifestyle
- weak-willed — having or showing a want of firmness of will; easily swayed.
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
- weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- weddell sea — an arm of the Atlantic, E of Antarctic Peninsula.
- welcome mat — a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-beaten — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
- well-earned — You can use well-earned to indicate that you think something is deserved, usually because the person who gets it has been working very hard.
- well-geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- well-headed — having a heading or course.
- well-healed — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
- well-marked — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-padded — (of a person) corpulent; portly; fat
- well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- well-played — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.