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11-letter words containing w, a, r, l

  • claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
  • clear water — a city in W Florida.
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
  • cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
  • contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
  • crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
  • crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
  • cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
  • crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
  • culture war — conflict of values
  • curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
  • curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
  • dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
  • dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
  • downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
  • draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
  • drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
  • dream world — the world of imagination or illusion rather than of objective reality.
  • earl warren — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
  • edward lear — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
  • electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
  • fallow deer — A fallow deer is a small deer that has a reddish coat which develops white spots in summer.
  • fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
  • floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
  • flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
  • 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.
  • garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • 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
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