12-letter words containing wal
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
- black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- curtain wall — a non-load-bearing external wall attached to a framed structure, often one that is prefabricated
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- hanging wall — Mining. the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare footwall (def 1).
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- mall walking — recreational or aerobic walking done in the confines of a shopping mall.
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- 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.
- renewal date — The renewal date of an existing insurance contract is the date on which it must be renewed.
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
- self-renewal — the act of renewing.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- to walk tall — If you say that someone walks tall, you mean that they behave in a way that shows that they have pride in themselves and in what they are doing.
- tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
- wailing wall — a wall in Jerusalem where Jews, on certain occasions, assemble for prayer and lamentation: traditionally believed to be the remains of the western wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70.
- walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walk through — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walk-on part — acting role with no spoken lines
- walk-through — Theater, Television. a rehearsal in which physical action is combined with reading the lines of a play. a perfunctory performance of a script.
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
- 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.
- 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 fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
- walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
- walking leaf — leaf insect.
- walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
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