11-letter words containing w, e, l, a
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fiddle away — to waste (time)
- flake white — lead white.
- flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- gamble away — lose through gambling
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- javel water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- joule's law — the principle that the rate of production of heat by a constant direct current is directly proportional to the resistance of the circuit and to the square of the current.
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- kill a well — To kill a well is to stop it from flowing by the use of mud or water to stop the pressure.
- lace pillow — pillow (def 3).
- lacquerware — Articles that have a decorative lacquer coating, viewed collectively.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lake edward — a lake in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Great Rift Valley: empties through the Semliki River into Lake Albert. Area: about 2150 sq km (830 sq miles)