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