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12-letter words containing l, w

  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • flower power — Flower power is an old-fashioned way of referring to hippies and the culture associated with hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • flowing well — A flowing well is a well which can produce oil or gas without the use of a mechanical pump.
  • flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
  • followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
  • fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
  • forward roll — a gymnastic movement in which the body is turned heels over head with the back of the neck resting on the ground
  • forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
  • 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
  • four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
  • fourth world — the world's most poverty-stricken nations, especially in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
  • freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
  • fribble away — to use wastefully
  • frost hollow — a depression in a hilly area in which cold air collects, becoming very cold at night
  • full forward — an attacking player who plays in the centre of the forward line
  • full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • galanty show — pantomime shadow play
  • gale warning — U.S. Meteorology. a National Weather Service warning of sustained winds at sea having speeds in the range 34–47 knots (39–54 mph, 17–24 m/sec). Compare warning (def 3).
  • gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • gallows tree — a gallows.
  • galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
  • general will — (in the philosophy of Rousseau) the source of legitimate authority residing in the collective will as contrasted with individual interests
  • genital wart — one of a cluster of warts occurring in the genital and anal areas and spread mainly by sexual contact, sometimes affecting the cervix in women and associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer.
  • gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
  • glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
  • go walkabout — to wander through the bush
  • go whole hog — Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
  • gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
  • gondwanaland — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
  • graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
  • green-wellie — characterizing or belonging to the upper-class set devoted to hunting, shooting, and fishing
  • grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
  • half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
  • half-forward — any of three forwards positioned between the centre line and the forward line
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