12-letter words containing w, e, y, l
- news analyst — commentator (def 1).
- nonyellowing — that does not become yellow, esp with age
- norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
- noteworthily — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
- otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
- owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- power supply — power supply unit
- prayer shawl — a tallith.
- prayer wheel — a wheel or cylinder inscribed with or containing prayers, used chiefly by Buddhists of Tibet.
- property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
- railway line — railroad route
- 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.
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- 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.
- to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
- torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- trial lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in appearing before trial courts.
- trolley wire — an overhead wire that provides the current required for the trolleys of electric vehicles
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- twitteringly — in a twittering manner
- two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
- unrewardedly — in an unrewarding manner
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
- utility wear — casual clothing that was originally intended for a particular activity, such as snowboarding or skiing
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- walter mitty — an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life.
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
- whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
- wild parsley — any of several uncultivated plants resembling the parsley in shape and structure.
- worldly-wise — wise as to the affairs of this world.