12-letter words containing w, o, l
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walking tour — a tour on which you walk rather than using transport
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- wall molding — back molding.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- wall-to-wall — covering the entire floor from one wall to another: wall-to-wall carpeting.
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- 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.
- water bottle — container that holds drinking water
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- water cooler — a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water willow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Justicia, of the acanthus family, growing in water or wet places, especially J. americana, of North America, having clusters of pale violet to white flowers.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- weasel words — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
- 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.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- well logging — the process or technique of recording a well log.
- well-beloved — loved deeply and sincerely: my well-beloved fiancé.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-content — fully contented; satisfied.
- well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- well-endowed — to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
- well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
- well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-founded — having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
- well-groomed — having the hair, skin, etc., well cared for; well-dressed, clean, and neat: a well-groomed young man.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-mounted — seated or riding on a horse or other animal.
- well-ordered — arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.
- well-plotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- well-rounded — having desirably varied abilities or attainments.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- well-trodden — a past participle of tread.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.