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11-letter words containing w, a, l

  • wagon vault — barrel vault.
  • waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
  • wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
  • wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
  • wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
  • waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
  • waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
  • walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
  • walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
  • walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
  • walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
  • 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.
  • walky-talky — walkie-talkie.
  • wall lizard — a small mottled grey lizard, Lacerta muralis, of Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia: family Lacertidae
  • wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • wall street — a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
  • wall system — a modular system of shelves, some of which may be enclosed by doors, either mounted on a wall or arranged in freestanding units, for holding books, bric-a-brac, etc., and sometimes including such features as a drop-leaf desk or specially designed storage space, as to accommodate records or electronic equipment.
  • walla walla — a city in SE Washington.
  • wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
  • wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
  • wallenstein — Also, Waldstein. Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von [ahl-brekht ven-tsuh l oi-zey-bee-oo s fuh n] /ˈɑl brɛxt ˈvɛn tsəl ɔɪˈzeɪ biˌʊs fən/ (Show IPA), Duke of Friedland [freed-land,, -luh nd;; German freet-lahnt] /ˈfridˌlænd,, -lənd;; German ˈfritˌlɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1583–1634, Austrian general in the Thirty Years' War, born in Bohemia.
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
  • walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
  • walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
  • 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.
  • wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • war surplus — equipment, supplies, etc., originally used by or manufactured for the armed forces, but disposed of cheaply as surplus or obsolete: He made his fortune in war surplus.
  • 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
  • ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
  • warlikeness — the state of being warlike
  • warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
  • warrantable — capable of being warranted.
  • warrantably — In a way that is justified; reasonably.
  • warrantless — authorization, sanction, or justification.
  • warriorlike — Like a warrior.
  • washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
  • wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
  • watch-glass — a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
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