11-letter words containing l, w
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
- cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
- cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
- cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- cavity wall — A cavity wall is a wall that consists of two separate walls with a space between them. Cavity walls help to keep out noise and cold.
- chain wheel — sprocket (def 1).
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- clear water — a city in W Florida.
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
- cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- collingwood — a city in SE Australia, near Melbourne.
- color wheel — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- coneflowers — Plural form of coneflower.
- contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
- cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
- cotton wool — Cotton wool is a soft mass of cotton, used especially for applying liquids or creams to your skin.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
- counterglow — gegenschein.
- cow college — an agricultural college
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cross swell — a movement of the sea at right angles to a major current
- crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.