11-letter words containing w, a, l
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gallowglass — a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- gamble away — lose through gambling
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
- hillwalking — The pastime of walking in hilly country.
- hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.
- javel water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- joule's law — the principle that the rate of production of heat by a constant direct current is directly proportional to the resistance of the circuit and to the square of the current.
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- kill a well — To kill a well is to stop it from flowing by the use of mud or water to stop the pressure.
- know it all — a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
- know-it-all — a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.