11-letter words containing w, a, l
- 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.
- sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- swiss lapis — cracked quartz, stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- take a walk — 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.
- talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
- tallow tree — a small tree, Sapium sebiferum, of the spurge family, cultivated in China and the tropics, having popcorn-shaped seeds with a waxy coating that is used for soap, candles, and oil.
- tallow wood — a tall eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus microcorys, of coastal regions, having soft fibrous bark and conical fruits and yielding a greasy timber
- tally-woman — a mistress
- tangle with — get involved with
- the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
- the gallows — execution by hanging
- the tynwald — the Parliament of the Isle of Man, consisting of the crown, lieutenant governor, House of Keys, and legislative council
- the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
- therewithal — together with that; in addition to that.
- thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
- travel well — If goods such as food products travel well, they can be transported a long way without being damaged or their quality being spoiled.
- tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
- trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
- twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
- twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
- twill weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are woven over and under two or more warp yarns, producing a characteristic diagonal pattern.
- two old cat — one old cat played with two batters.
- unallowable — not allowable; unacceptable or inadmissible
- unrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
- unweariably — in an unweariable manner
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- valley wind — a wind that ascends a mountain valley during the day.
- view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages