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13-letter words containing l, w, e

  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • three-wheeler — a vehicle equipped with three wheels, as a tricycle, a motorcycle with a sidecar, or some small, experimental, or early-model cars.
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • 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.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
  • unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • unwillingness — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
  • unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
  • urban renewal — the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
  • ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
  • van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
  • vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
  • venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
  • 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.
  • wah-wah pedal — a foot pedal attached to an electronic musical instrument, used to create a sound that simulates the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered
  • walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
  • walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
  • wall streeter — a person who is employed on Wall Street or in the financial district.
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