12-letter words containing w, e, l, a
- yellow alert — (in military or civilian defense) the first alert given when enemy aircraft are discovered approaching a military installation, city, coastline, etc. Compare blue alert, red alert, white alert.
- yellow avens — herb bennet.
- yellow daisy — the black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.
- yellow metal — a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
- yellow pages — Network Information Service
- yellow sally — an angler's name for either of two small yellow stoneflies: Isoperla grammatica of chalk streams and Chloroperla torrentium of upland streams
- yellowhammer — a common European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, the male of which is marked with bright yellow.
- yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yellowthroat — any of several American warblers of the genus Geothlypis, having a throat that is yellow, especially the common yellowthroat, G. trichas.