13-letter words containing r, e, w, i, l
- guerrilla war — a war between an established army and a guerrilla group
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- letter-writer — a person who writes letters or communications
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- mineral water — water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, especially such water considered healthful to drink.
- mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
- 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.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
- new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- power failure — electricity outage
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself