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

  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • 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
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
  • maxwell demon — a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • ne'er-do-well — an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • nylon letdown — evacuation from an aircraft by means of a parachute.
  • old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • 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 loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • 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-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.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • spider flower — cleome
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the last word — final retort
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
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