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11-letter words containing w, l, a, d

  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • 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.
  • indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.
  • labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
  • 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)
  • lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
  • land worker — a person who works on the land
  • law student — sb who studies legal system
  • law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
  • lead weight — a weight made of lead
  • leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
  • limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
  • meadow lily — Canada lily.
  • meadow vole — meadow mouse.
  • meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
  • new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • new ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
  • new zealand — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
  • oval window — an oval opening at the head of the cochlea, connecting the middle and inner ear, through which sound vibrations of the stapes are transmitted.
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • pedal power — use of a cycle
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
  • scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
  • schoolwards — in the direction of school
  • schwarzwald — a wooded mountain region in SW Germany. Highest peak, Feldberg, 4905 feet (1495 meters).
  • self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
  • shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
  • shadow roll — sheepskin that is placed just below the eyes of a pacing horse in order to prevent it from seeing moving shadows cast by its body.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • strand wolf — brown hyena.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
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