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11-letter words containing w, a, l, g

  • law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • lead weight — a weight made of lead
  • leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
  • living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
  • long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
  • new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
  • sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • 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
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • the gallows — execution by hanging
  • thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
  • tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
  • unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
  • wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
  • wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
  • wagon vault — barrel vault.
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
  • walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
  • wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
  • warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
  • watch-glass — a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
  • water glass — a drinking glass; tumbler.
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
  • wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
  • weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
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