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12-letter words containing w, a, l, o, n

  • high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
  • hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
  • knowableness — the quality of being knowable
  • knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
  • laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
  • long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
  • marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • 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.
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • 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
  • nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
  • nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
  • norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
  • 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
  • owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
  • patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • 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.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
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