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11-letter words containing l, w, e

  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
  • long-winded — talking or writing at tedious length: long-winded after-dinner speakers.
  • loose-weave — loosely woven
  • low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
  • low profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
  • low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
  • low-context — tending to communicate by electronic methods such as e-mail, rather than in person
  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-pitched — pitched in a low register or key: a low-pitched aria for the basso.
  • low-powered — having little power or capacity
  • low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
  • low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
  • low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
  • lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
  • lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
  • lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
  • lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
  • lower egyptArab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
  • lower house — one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
  • lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
  • lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
  • lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
  • lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
  • lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
  • mallee fowl — an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • may as well — If you say that something, usually something bad, might as well be true or may as well be true, you mean that the situation is the same or almost the same as if it were true.
  • meadow lily — Canada lily.
  • meadow vole — meadow mouse.
  • meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • medium well — Meat that is medium well is cooked so that the inside is slightly pink.
  • megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
  • mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • middle west — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
  • middlewomen — Plural form of middlewoman.
  • mig welding — metal inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the filler metal wire supplies the electric current to maintain the arc, which is shielded from the access of air by an inert gas, usually argon
  • mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
  • mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
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