13-letter words containing s, e, w, l
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- finagle's law — (humour) The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- gallowglasses — Plural form of gallowglass.
- gallows frame — headframe.
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- ideal gas law — the law that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
- 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.
- jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
- kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- 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.
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- lesser weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- 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.
- mendel's laws — law of segregation.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- might as well — have no reason not to
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.