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13-letter words containing i, n, l, a, w

  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • 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.
  • law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • 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.
  • lunar rainbow — moonbow.
  • lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • mineral water — water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, especially such water considered healthful to drink.
  • mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • 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.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • town planning — city planning.
  • training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
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