13-letter words containing s, l, o, w, t
- the last word — final retort
- to down tools — If you say that workers down tools, you mean that they stop working suddenly in order to strike or to make a protest of some kind.
- 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
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- 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-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another
- 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
- whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- 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
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- 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.
- worthlessness — The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
- yellow locust — black locust.
- yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
- yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.