13-letter words containing s, e, w, l
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
- new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- 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.
- 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 strike — wildcat strike.
- paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- 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.
- penny whistle — a type of flageolet with six finger holes, esp a cheap one made of metal
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
- real soon now — (jargon, humour) (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
- 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
- salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- 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 the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- 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.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.