11-letter words containing l, w
- black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- black widow — an American spider, Latrodectus mactans, the female of which is black with red markings, highly venomous, and commonly eats its mate
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
- bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
- bleed white — to deprive slowly of resources
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- blow-molded — (of plastic hollowware) made by blowing and shaping in a mold; mold-blown.
- boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
- botany wool — a fine wool from the merino sheep
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
- brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bubble bowl — a spherical, usually clear glass vessel with a wide circular top opening, used as a vase, especially for displaying a single floating blossom.
- bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
- bull's wool — nonsense
- bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
- bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- cakewalking — Present participle of cakewalk.
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle