13-letter words containing o, w, e, l, s
- sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- sumo wrestler — Japanese wrestling sportsman
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superpowerful — extremely powerful
- sweet trolley — (in a restaurant) a trolley on which desserts are brought to the table so that diners can choose from them
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- 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.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- 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
- water-soluble — capable of dissolving in water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- well disposed — If you are well disposed to a person, plan, or activity, you are likely to agree with them or support them.
- well-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another
- well-composed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- well-disposed — favorably, sympathetically, or kindly disposed: The sponsors are well-disposed toward our plan.
- well-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- well-schooled — having been trained or educated sufficiently, as in a school
- well-seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wholesomeness — The state of being wholesome.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- wireless room — a room on a premises, on a ship, etc where radio equipment is installed
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.