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12-letter words containing w, a, t, l, e

  • legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
  • lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
  • long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • mail gateway — (messaging)   A machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (including dissimilar mail systems) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be quite complex, and it generally requires a store and forward scheme whereby the message is received from one system completely before it is transmitted to the next system, after suitable translations.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • maritime law — the body of law relating to maritime commerce and navigation, and to maritime matters generally.
  • meet halfway — to compromise with
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
  • militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
  • news analyst — commentator (def 1).
  • nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
  • off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
  • off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
  • out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
  • owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • pied wagtail — a British songbird, Motacilla alba yarrellii, with a black throat and back, long black tail, and white underparts and face: family Motacillidae (wagtails and pipits)
  • planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • plate warmer — a device for warming plates
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renewal date — The renewal date of an existing insurance contract is the date on which it must be renewed.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
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