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11-letter words containing l, w

  • gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
  • gamble away — lose through gambling
  • gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
  • garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
  • gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
  • gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • gentlewomen — Plural form of gentlewoman.
  • gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
  • gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
  • go downhill — travel down a slope
  • go ill with — to be unfortunate for or unfavorable to
  • gobble down — eat hungrily
  • god willing — if this is what God wishes
  • golden glow — a tall garden black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia laciniata) with numerous globular, yellow ray flower heads
  • good fellow — a friendly and pleasant person.
  • googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
  • googlewhore — (Internet slang) To promote via Google; in particular, to do so by googlebombing.
  • grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
  • great world — fashionable society and its way of life
  • grey willow — a species of willow, Salix cinerea, with greenish-grey catkins
  • grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
  • guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
  • harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • heart-whole — not in love.
  • heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
  • hepplewhiteGeorge, died 1786, English furniture designer and cabinetmaker.
  • hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
  • high yellow — a term used to refer to a light-skinned black person.
  • hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
  • hillwalking — The pastime of walking in hilly country.
  • hinshelwoodSir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
  • hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
  • hollow tile — tile (def 5).
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