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

  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • warning light — a light that indicates danger
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
  • water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
  • water lobelia — Lobelia dortmanna
  • water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
  • water quality — Water quality is the degree to which water is clean, and whether it is suitable for drinking, for making plants grow, or for fish to live in, etc.
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
  • well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • well-situated — located; placed.
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • what you will — whatever you like
  • whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
  • whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
  • white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
  • wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
  • wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
  • wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
  • wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
  • wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
  • wild marjoram — a similar and related European plant, Origanum vulgare
  • wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
  • wildlife park — animal reserve
  • wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
  • williams pear — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit
  • willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
  • willy wagtail — a large black-and-white bird, Rhipidura leucophrys, of Australia and New Guinea, having bristles around the upper bill and a long, fanlike tail.
  • winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
  • winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
  • winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
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