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12-letter words containing w, a, i, l

  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
  • military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
  • militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
  • militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
  • mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
  • mulligatawny — a curry-flavored soup of East Indian origin, made with chicken or meat stock.
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
  • new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.
  • new-laid egg — an egg that has been freshly laid by a chicken
  • nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • on a bowline — beating close to the wind
  • parallelwise — in a parallel manner
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • primary wall — the wall of a plant cell that is formed first around the protoplast, composed of cellulose microfibrils aligned at all angles and held together by hydrogen bonds.
  • rack railway — cog railway.
  • railway line — railroad route
  • railway yard — an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
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