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12-letter words containing w, e, i, l

  • police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • railway line — railroad route
  • 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.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • swallow dive — swan dive.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
  • sweet cicely — any of several plants, as a European plant, Myrrhis odorata, of the parsley family, used as a potherb, or certain related North American plants of the genus Osmorhiza.
  • sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
  • the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
  • to hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • toilet water — a scented liquid used as a light perfume; cologne.
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