11-letter words containing w, e, i, l
- kill a well — To kill a well is to stop it from flowing by the use of mud or water to stop the pressure.
- killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
- knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
- lace pillow — pillow (def 3).
- large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- law society — association of lawyers
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
- lie in wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- lightweight — light in weight.
- lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- littleworth — worthless; of little value
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- long-winded — talking or writing at tedious length: long-winded after-dinner speakers.
- low profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
- low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- low-pitched — pitched in a low register or key: a low-pitched aria for the basso.
- low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
- low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
- low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- medium well — Meat that is medium well is cooked so that the inside is slightly pink.
- middle west — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
- middlewomen — Plural form of middlewoman.
- mig welding — metal inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the filler metal wire supplies the electric current to maintain the arc, which is shielded from the access of air by an inert gas, usually argon
- mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
- milk powder — dry milk.
- milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
- mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
- milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.