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6-letter words containing w, o, l

  • sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
  • slowly — in a slow manner; at a slow speed: Sauté the peppers slowly. I drove slowly back home.
  • tallow — the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
  • townly — characteristic of a town
  • trowel — any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
  • uncowl — to remove a covering or monk's hood from (a head, etc.)
  • upblow — to inflate; blow up
  • upflow — to flow upwards
  • vowels — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to consonant). (in a syllable) the sound of greatest sonority, as i in grill. Compare consonant (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with consonant, as the (ē) of be (bē), we (wē), and yeast (yēst).
  • wadmol — a bulky woolen fabric woven of coarse yarn and heavily napped, formerly much used in England and Scandinavia for the manufacture of durable winter garments.
  • waldos — Plural form of waldo.
  • wallop — to beat soundly; thrash.
  • wallow — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
  • walton — Ernest Thomas Sinton [sin-tn] /ˈsɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1903–95, Irish physicist: Nobel prize 1951.
  • warholAndy, 1928–87, U.S. artist.
  • watbol — WATerloo COBOL. A COBOL for IBM MVS.
  • weblog — original term for blog.
  • weldon — Fay. born 1931, British novelist and writer. Her novels include Praxis (1978), Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1984), Big Women (1998), and Rhode Island Blues (2003)
  • weldor — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
  • welkom — a town in central South Africa; developed rapidly following the discovery of gold. Pop: 34 157 (2001)
  • whilom — former; erstwhile: whilom friends.
  • who'll — Who'll is a spoken form of 'who will' or 'who shall'.
  • wholer — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
  • wholes — Plural form of whole.
  • wholly — entirely; totally; altogether; quite.
  • whorls — Plural form of whorl.
  • wilcoxElla Wheeler, 1850–1919, U.S. poet.
  • willow — any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, characterized by narrow, lance-shaped leaves and dense catkins bearing small flowers, many species having tough, pliable twigs or branches used for wickerwork, etc. Compare willow family.
  • wilmotDavid, 1814–68, U.S. politician and jurist: congressman 1845–51; senator 1861–63.
  • wilson — Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) [jon-stuh n,, -suh n] /ˈdʒɒn stən,, -sən/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, English writer.
  • wilton — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • wittol — a man who knows of and tolerates his wife's infidelity.
  • wobble — to incline to one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, or other rotating body when not properly balanced.
  • wobbly — shaky; unsteady.
  • woeful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
  • woggle — Boy Scout’s neckerchief clasp or slide, originally a loop or ring of leather.
  • wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
  • wolfed — Simple past tense and past participle of wolf.
  • wolfer — a person who hunts wolves
  • wolfit — Sir Donald. 1902–68, English stage actor and manager
  • wolseyThomas, 1475?–1530, English cardinal and statesman.
  • wolved — Simple past tense and past participle of wolve.
  • wolven — Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.
  • wolver — a person who hunts for wolves.
  • wolves — plural of wolf.
  • womble — (UK) A Womble.
  • wooled — Having wool of a specified kind.
  • woolen — any cloth of carded wool yarn of which the fibers vary in length: bulkier, looser, and less regular than worsted.
  • wooler — a domestic animal raised for its wool.
  • wooley — (rare) alternative spelling of wooly.
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