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12-letter words containing w, a, l

  • disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
  • dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
  • drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
  • drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
  • dual highway — divided highway.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
  • dwarf mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
  • ebb and flow — tidal movement
  • editorial we — we (def 6).
  • edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
  • elbow grease — physical effort
  • englishwoman — adult female from England
  • escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
  • explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
  • fall down on — to fail or be unsuccessful in (a job, etc.)
  • fall forward — (communications)   A feature of a modem protocol where two modems which fall back to a lower speed because of data corruption can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
  • fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
  • false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • fast-flowing — water: rapid
  • fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
  • ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
  • fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
  • flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
  • floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
  • forward roll — a gymnastic movement in which the body is turned heels over head with the back of the neck resting on the ground
  • forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
  • four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
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