13-letter words containing l, e, a, w, o
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- water lobelia — Lobelia dortmanna
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
- water-soluble — capable of dissolving in water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- well and good — You say well and good or all well and good to indicate that you would be pleased if something happens but you are aware that it has some disadvantages.
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- well-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another
- well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- well-seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.