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12-letter words containing o, l, d, e, w

  • hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
  • in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
  • leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
  • lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
  • long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
  • long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
  • low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
  • middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
  • misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
  • multitowered — comprising several towers
  • needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
  • nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
  • netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
  • oriel window — a bay window, esp one that is supported by one or more brackets or corbels
  • otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
  • overflow pdl — (jargon)   The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
  • overwithhold — to withhold too much.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • rollaway bed — a bed on castors
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • swallow dive — swan dive.
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
  • town dweller — a person who resides in a town
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
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