6-letter words containing l, w
- mu-law — The North America standard for nonuniform quantising logarithmic compression.
- narwal — Archaic form of narwhal.
- newels — Plural form of newel.
- nowell — Obsolete spelling of noel.
- nowels — Plural form of nowel.
- oilway — a hole in a machine which allows oil to be inserted for lubrication
- onflow — a flowing on of something, or the act of flowing on
- onslow — George, 1784–1853, French composer.
- orwell — George (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903–50, English novelist and essayist.
- oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- owelsh — Old Welsh
- owelty — equality, esp in financial transactions
- owlery — a place that owls inhabit
- owlish — resembling or characteristic of an owl: His thick glasses give him an owlish appearance.
- pillow — a bag or case made of cloth that is filled with feathers, down, or other soft material, and is used to cushion the head during sleep or rest.
- plowed — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- powell — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
- prawle — a brawl
- pulwar — a light Indian river boat used for carrying cargo
- qawwal — A performer of qawwali.
- reflow — to flow again
- reglow — the act of glowing again
- replow — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- reweld — to weld again
- rewild — to introduce (animals or plants) to their original habitat or to a habitat similar to their natural one: proposals to rewild elephants to the American plains.
- rowley — Thomas. ?1586–?1642, English dramatist, who collaborated with John Ford and Thomas Dekker on The Witch of Edmonton (1621) and with Thomas Middleton on The Changeling (1622)
- sallow — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- sawlog — a log large enough to be suitable for sawing or making into lumber
- scrawl — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- sewall — Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.
- sewell — Anna, 1820–78, English author.
- slewed — simple past tense of slay.
- slowly — in a slow manner; at a slow speed: Sauté the peppers slowly. I drove slowly back home.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- swally — an alcoholic drink
- swiler — (in Newfoundland) a seal hunter
- swiple — the part of a flail that strikes the grain in threshing
- swirly — swirling, whirling, or twisted.
- swivel — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
- tallow — the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
- talwin — pentazocine
- townly — characteristic of a town
- trowel — any of various tools having a flat blade with a handle, used for depositing and working mortar, plaster, etc.
- tulwar — any of several Indian sabers.
- twelve — a cardinal number, 10 plus 2.
- twilit — lighted by or as by twilight: a twilit cathedral.
- twilly — a machine with a series of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibres
- twirly — related to or characterized by twirls