5-letter words containing l, w
- growl — to utter a deep guttural sound of anger or hostility: The dog growled at the mail carrier.
- gwawl — the rival of Pwyll for the hand of Rhiannon.
- halwa — Alternative spelling of halva.
- howel — a channel cut along the inside edge of a barrel stave to receive the barrelhead.
- howls — Plural form of howl.
- ilgwu — International Ladies Garment Workers Union
- inlaw — to restore (an outlaw) to the benefits and protection of the law.
- jewel — a female given name.
- jowls — a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw, as of a very fat person.
- jowly — having prominent jowls.
- kwela — a type of pop music popular among the Black communities of South Africa
- lawed — the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
- lawer — Obsolete form of lawyer.
- lawes — Henry ("Harry") 1596–1662, English composer.
- lawin — a bill or reckoning
- lawks — an expression of surprise or dismay
- lawly — Pertaining to or adhering to the law; lawful; legal.
- lawns — Plural form of lawn.
- lawny — a thin or sheer linen or cotton fabric, either plain or printed.
- lewer — Comparative form of lew.
- lewes — George Henry, 1817–78, English writer and critic.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- liwan — iwan.
- llwyd — a magician who avenged his friend Gwawl upon Pryderi, the son of Pwyll, by casting various spells upon Pryderi and his estate.
- loewe — Frederick, 1904–88, U.S. composer, born in Austria.
- loewi — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1961, German pharmacologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- loewy — Raymond Fernand [fer-nand] /fərˈnænd/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. industrial designer, born in France.
- lowan — mallee fowl.
- lowed — to burn; blaze.
- lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- lowes — John Livingston, 1867–1945, U.S. scholar, critic, and teacher.
- lowly — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
- lowns — loon2 .
- lowry — (Clarence) Malcolm (Boden) [bohd-n] /ˈboʊd n/ (Show IPA), 1909–57, U.S. novelist, born in England.
- lowse — loose
- lowth — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Lowness.
- lweis — Plural form of lwei.
- lwoff — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1902–1994, French microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965.
- malwa — Beer made with millet.
- mewls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mewl.
- mlowg — Middle Low German
- newel — newel post.
- newly — recently; lately: a newly married couple.
- nowel — Noel (def 2).
- olwen — a princess, the daughter of Ysbaddaden Chief-giant.
- owler — a smuggler (esp of sheep, from England to France)
- owlet — a young owl.
- pilaw — pilaf.
- prowl — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- pwyll — a prince who stole his wife, Rhiannon, from her suitor, Gwawl, and was the father of Pryderi.