12-letter words containing w, e, l, a
- cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clean bowled — bowled by a ball that breaks the wicket without hitting the batsman or his bat
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crawler lane — a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- editorial we — we (def 6).
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.