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13-letter words containing o, s, w, e

  • housewifeship — the role of a housewife, household management
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • 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.
  • jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
  • 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.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • 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 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.
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
  • mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
  • meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
  • microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
  • minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
  • mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
  • moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
  • naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • network storm — broadcast storm
  • new economics — Keynesianism.
  • new stone age — the Neolithic period.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • nonsense word — a word that has no real meaning
  • north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
  • north-western — North-western means in or from the north-west of a region or country.
  • northeastward — the northeast.
  • northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
  • northwestward — the northwest.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
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