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13-letter words containing l, w, e

  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
  • paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • 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.
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • penny whistle — a type of flageolet with six finger holes, esp a cheap one made of metal
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
  • potbelly wood — a load of firewood, approximately half a cord, cut in lengths of 16 inches (40 cm) or less for use in a potbelly stove.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • 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.
  • powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • pure new wool — the best wool or wool blended fibres
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • 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."
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
  • 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.
  • salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
  • salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • 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.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
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