12-letter words containing w, m, l, a
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- militiawoman — A female member of a militia.
- militiawomen — Plural form of militiawoman.
- mineral wool — a woollike material for heat and sound insulation, made by blowing steam or air through molten slag or rock.
- mulligatawny — a curry-flavored soup of East Indian origin, made with chicken or meat stock.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
- norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- plate warmer — a device for warming plates
- primary wall — the wall of a plant cell that is formed first around the protoplast, composed of cellulose microfibrils aligned at all angles and held together by hydrogen bonds.
- raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- swamp azalea — an azalea, Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern U.S., having fragrant, white to pink or sometimes red flowers.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- swamp mallow — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- to mean well — If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- wall molding — back molding.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- 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.
- war memorial — monument to dead soldiers
- warm welcome — friendly or enthusiastic reception
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- well managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-meaning — meaning or intending well; having good intentions: a well-meaning but tactless person.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
- william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
- william laud — William, 1573–1645, archbishop of Canterbury and opponent of Puritanism: executed for treason.