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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
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