4-letter words containing l, w
- slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- twal — the twelve
- vlbw — Very Low Birth Weight
- vliw — Very Long Instruction Word
- waal — a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River: the center branch of the lower Rhine. 52 miles (84 km) long.
- wafl — WArwick Functional Language. Warwick U, England. LISP-like.
- wail — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- wald — George, 1906–97, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1967.
- wale — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- wali — The governor of a province in an Arab country.
- walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- waly — (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.
- waul — Give a loud plaintive cry like that of a cat.
- wawl — Alternative form of waul.
- wbal — West Bay Athletic League
- wbll — West Bend Little League
- wbpl — Western Beer Pong League
- wbvl — Womens Beach Volleyball League
- wclc — West Cobb Lacrosse Club
- wcll — Western Collegiate Lacrosse League
- wcwl — Whitman College Womens Lacrosse
- wdrl — World Dirt Racing League
- weal — wheal.
- weel — (obsolete) A whirlpool.
- weil — André, 1906–98, U.S. mathematician, born in France: brother of Simone Weil.
- weld — 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.
- wele — (obsolete) prosperity; happiness; well-being.
- welk — (obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
- well — in a good or satisfactory manner: Business is going well.
- welp — (slang) Well.
- wels — The wels catfish.
- welt — a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.
- weyl — Hermann [hur-muh n;; German her-mahn] /ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1955, German mathematician, in the U.S. after 1933.
- wgbl — Weymouth Girls Basketball League
- wghl — Wild Goose Hockey League
- wglp — Wide Grip Lat Pull
- whql — Windows Hardware Quality Labs
- wibl — Windsor Instructional Basketball League
- wifl — Western Intercollegiate Football League
- wihl — Western Intercollegiate Hockey League
- wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- wili — a female spirit or ghost from Slavonic mythology, believed to punish faithless men by dancing with them until they die of exhaustion
- wilk — (zoology) Obsolete form of whelk.
- will — Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
- wiln — (transitive, obsolete) To wish; desire.
- wilt — to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.
- wily — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- wiol — Washington Interscholastic Orienteering League