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13-letter words containing h, o, l, w

  • hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
  • hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
  • homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
  • hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
  • hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • i'll show you — You can say 'I'll show you' to threaten or warn someone that you are going to make them admit that they are wrong.
  • isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
  • low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
  • nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
  • old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
  • play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • snowball bush — guelder rose.
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
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