13-letter words containing l, a, w, t, o
- 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 of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- 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 austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- 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.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- 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.
- ottawa euclid — Euclid
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- 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.
- rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
- royal warrant — an authorization to a tradesman to supply goods to a royal household
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- 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.
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- the last word — final retort
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- town planning — city planning.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable