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13-letter words containing l, o, w, e, s

  • king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • low explosive — a relatively slow-burning explosive, usually set off by heat or friction, used for propelling charges in guns or for ordinary blasting.
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • 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.
  • moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
  • naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
  • nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • 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.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • real soon now — (jargon, humour)   (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • 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.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • 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
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
  • 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.
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • spider flower — cleome
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
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