11-letter words containing n, o, a, l, w
- middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
- mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
- needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
- new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
- non-renewal — the act of renewing.
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
- oval window — an oval opening at the head of the cochlea, connecting the middle and inner ear, through which sound vibrations of the stapes are transmitted.
- patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
- tally-woman — a mistress
- torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
- unallowable — not allowable; unacceptable or inadmissible
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- walk out on — 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.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wild orange — laurel cherry.