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13-letter words containing s, w, i, l

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
  • 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.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
  • 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.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • 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
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • 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.
  • silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
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