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13-letter words containing l, w

  • ideal gas law — the law that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
  • in full swing — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • indecency law — the law relating to indecency
  • indian mallow — Also called velvetleaf. an Asian plant, Abutilon theophrasti, of the mallow family, having velvety leaves and yellow flowers: it is cultivated in China for its jutelike fiber and has become naturalized as a weed in North America.
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • javelle water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
  • jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • 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.
  • knitting wool — wool used for knitting
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • kwazulu-natal — a province of NE South Africa; replaced the former province of Natal in 1994: service industries. Capital: Pietermaritzburg. Pop: 10 267 300 (2011 est). Area: 92 180 sq km (35 591 sq miles)
  • lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
  • lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • lesser weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
  • letter-writer — a person who writes letters or communications
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • 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 churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
  • 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.
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
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