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17-letter words containing w, e, r, l

  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • four-letter words — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
  • four-rowed barley — a class of barley having, in each spike, six rows of grain, with two pairs of rows overlapping.
  • frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
  • freewill offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
  • front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
  • furbish lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
  • general knowledge — commonly known facts
  • george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • give to the world — to publish
  • glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • guerrilla warfare — the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
  • horst wessel song — the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
  • illinois waterway — a waterway system in N Illinois made up of canals and rivers connecting Lake Michigan in Chicago with the Mississippi River. 336 miles (541 km) long.
  • in the wilderness — If politicians or other well-known people spend time in the wilderness, they are not in an influential position or very active in their profession for that time.
  • incomplete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
  • intelligence work — spying
  • international law — the body of rules that nations generally recognize as binding in their conduct toward one another.
  • lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
  • law of reflection — the principle that when a ray of light, radar pulse, or the like, is reflected from a smooth surface the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, and the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of refraction — the principle that for a ray, radar pulse, or the like, that is incident on the interface of two media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the ray in the first medium to the velocity in the second medium and the incident ray, refracted ray, and normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • leg before wicket — a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket
  • lesser periwinkle — a Eurasian apocynaceous evergreen plant of the genus Vinca,; V. minor, having trailing stems and blue flowers
  • lesser yellowlegs — either of two American shorebirds having yellow legs, Tringa melanoleuca (greater yellowlegs) or T. flavipes (lesser yellowlegs)
  • lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • lie in wait (for) — to wait so as to catch after planning an ambush or trap (for)
  • lowbush blueberry — a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.
  • lower forty-eight — the forty-eight conterminous states of the United States
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • manpower planning — a procedure used in organizations to balance future requirements for all levels of employee with the availability of such employees
  • manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
  • mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • mid-level network — (Or "regional network"). The kind of networks which make up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the transit networks which connect the stub networks to the backbone networks.
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • middle of nowhere — a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
  • mother spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium bulbiferum, of tropical Africa and Australasia, the fronds often bearing bulbils that sprout into new plants while still attached, grown as an ornamental.
  • multilateral well — A multilateral well is a well that has more than one branch radiating from the main wellbore.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
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