12-letter words containing w, a, t, l
- 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.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- genital wart — one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hit 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.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- just as well — fortunate
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- lead the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- least weasel — a weasel, Mustela nivalis, of northern regions, that grows to a length of about 6 inches (15 cm).
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- 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.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- 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.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- mulligatawny — a curry-flavored soup of East Indian origin, made with chicken or meat stock.
- 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).
- patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
- 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)
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.