5-letter words containing l, w
- rawls — John, 1921–2002, U.S. political philosopher.
- rawly — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- rowel — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- scowl — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- sewel — a type of scarecrow made from feathers and used to prevent deer from entering an area
- shawl — a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness.
- slow- — slow- is used to form words which describe something that happens slowly.
- spawl — spittle
- swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- swalk — sealed with a loving kiss: sometimes written on the back of envelopes
- sweal — the guttering of a candle
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- swelt — to perish
- swill — liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
- swirl — to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
- swoln — swollen.
- tewel — a horse's rectum
- towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- tplwu — Toronto Public Library Workers Union
- trawl — Also called trawl net. a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
- twill — a fabric constructed in twill weave.
- twirl — to cause to rotate rapidly; spin; revolve; whirl.
- unlaw — to fine (someone) a sum of money
- vowel — 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).
- waals — a river in the central Netherlands, flowing W to the Meuse River: the center branch of the lower Rhine. 52 miles (84 km) long.
- wagsl — Washington Area Girls Soccer League
- waile — Obsolete spelling of wail.
- wails — Plural form of wail.
- waldo — Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.
- waled — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- waler — a horse bred in New South Wales, Australia, as a military saddle horse and exported in numbers during the 19th century to British India.
- wales — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- waley — Arthur (Arthur David Schloss) 1889–1966, British translator of Chinese and Japanese literature.
- walis — Plural form of wali.
- walke — Obsolete spelling of walk.
- walks — Plural form of walk.
- walla — wallah.
- walls — Plural form of wall.
- wally — fine; splendid.
- walsh — Courtney (Andrew). born 1962, West Indian cricketer, born in Jamaica: a fast bowler, he took 519 wickets in 132 test matches (1984–2001)
- walty — (of a ship) insecure or wobbly
- waltz — a ballroom dance, in moderately fast triple meter, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.
- wanly — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
- waulk — (transitive, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
- wauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waul.
- we'll — We'll is the usual spoken form of 'we shall' or 'we will'.
- weald — The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
- weale — Alternative form of wale.
- weals — wheal.
- wedel — to engage in wedeln.