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17-letter words containing l, o, w, n, e, s

  • stonewall jacksonAndrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • tell its own tale — to be self-evident
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
  • well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • welsh nationalist — a person who believes that Wales should be independent
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • wet one's whistle — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
  • white-nationalism — white supremacy.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • windowglass shell — capiz.
  • wish someone well — to wish success or good fortune for someone
  • woolly rhinoceros — an extinct rhinoceros; Coelodonta antiquitatis
  • worth one's while — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
  • yellow journalism — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
  • yellowstone falls — a waterfall in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park on the Yellowstone River
  • yellowstone river — river flowing from NW Wyo. through Mont. into the Missouri River: 671 mi (1,080 km)
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