13-letter words containing s, w, o
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- 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.
- of many words — talkative
- of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
- 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.
- on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- 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
- out one's way — in, to, or near one's neighborhood
- outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
- outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
- oversweetness — the state of being too sweet
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
- 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.
- pay one's way — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- power station — a generating station.
- power workers — the people who work in the power industry
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- 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."
- rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
- reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
- rewriteperson — rewriteman.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- 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.
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sawtooth roof — a roof composed of a series of small parallel roofs of triangular cross section, usually asymmetrical with the shorter slope glazed.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
- see one's way — to find it possible and be willing (to do something)
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- send away for — order by post
- sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.