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12-letter words containing w, e, a, r

  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
  • lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
  • leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
  • 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.
  • leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
  • lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
  • long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
  • mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
  • maritime law — the body of law relating to maritime commerce and navigation, and to maritime matters generally.
  • match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
  • matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
  • medal-winner — a person who has won a medal or medals
  • medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
  • mermaid weed — any of several North American, aquatic plants of the genus Proserpinaca, having pinnately dissected leaves either above or below the water.
  • merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
  • metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • meteor swarm — any large number of meteoroids moving in parallel paths.
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
  • narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
  • network card — network interface controller
  • new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.
  • new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
  • new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
  • new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
  • newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
  • news release — a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
  • news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
  • newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
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