Phrase Hound found 109 phrases and 63 compound words that contain walls. The most common are listed below. Open walls in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 109
- up the wallsVery busy, swamped.
- stone wallsplural of stone wall: A wall made from stone.
- retaining wallsplural of retaining wall: Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth.
- cell wallsplural of cell wall: A rigid, non-living structural layer located outside the cell membrane in certain cells, such as those of plants, fungi, bacteria, and some algae, providing support, shape, and protection.
- walls have earsThere is always a risk of being overheard, so one should be careful about what one says.
- city wallsplural of city wall: A wall around a city, built to define the city's boundaries, and sometimes to protect it from aggressors.
- walls of deathplural of wall of death: A motordrome.
- walls of soundplural of wall of sound: A popular music production technique, developed in the 1960s, in which a number of musicians perform the same instruments or parts in unison and the resulting sound is re-recorded in an echo chamber.
- walls of textplural of wall of text: An intimidatingly large block of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks.
- brick wallsplural of brick wall: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks.
- climb the wallsTo behave in a distressed or frantic manner; to exhibit great agitation.
- walls of galaxiesplural of wall of galaxies: A subtype of a galaxy filament that has a significantly greater major axis than a minor axis in its crosssection, along the lengthwise axis.
- town wallsA large historic line of walls encircling a town that normally dates back at least to the Middle Ages.
- climbing the wallspresent participle and gerund of climb the walls
- walls of silenceplural of wall of silence: Strict secretiveness maintained by the members of a group with respect to information which might be contrary to their interests, especially information concerning questionable actions by members of the group.
- side wallsplural of side wall: Either of the two parallel walls in a court, perpendicular to the front wall; either of the walls on the side of the court.
- hole-in-the-wallsplural of hole-in-the-wall: A restaurant, shop or other establishment catering to customers that is particularly inconspicuous and easily overlooked.
- walls of shameplural of wall of shame: A collection of the worst or most hated entries in a particular subject, medium, field, or for people who have failed to complete a challenge, etc.
- Chinese Wallsplural of Chinese Wall: An information barrier within an organization, designed to ensure internal confidentiality; frequently used to prevent conflicts of interest.
- domain wallsplural of domain wall: An interface separating magnetic domains.
- dry wallsplural of dry wall: A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
- green wallsplural of green wall: A wall deliberately covered with living greenery.
- Jersey wallsplural of Jersey wall: A low wall made of Jersey barriers used to separate lanes of traffic.
- living wallsplural of living wall: A green wall, a wall covered by greenery.
- paper wallsplural of paper wall: A thin wall, especially if poorly soundproof.
Compound words 63
- firewallsplural of firewall: A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
- sidewallsplural of sidewall: The side of a tire.
- seawallsplural of seawall: A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.
- stonewallsplural of stonewall: An obstruction.
- floodwallsplural of floodwall: A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
- airwallsplural of airwall: The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.
- backwallsplural of backwall: The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall.
- blackwallsplural of blackwall: A neighbourhood in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, alongside the Thames (OS grid ref TQ3880).
- breakwallsplural of breakwall: A wall, typically built outside of a harbour, that diminishes damage due to battering by the waves.
- brickwallsplural of brickwall: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks.