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

  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • 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.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • 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.
  • overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
  • play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • 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.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
  • relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • 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.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • 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.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • 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.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
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