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13-letter words containing t, a, i, l, w

  • negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • 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.
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
  • palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
  • silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • town planning — city planning.
  • training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • walk out with — to court or be courted by
  • walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
  • walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
  • wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
  • walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • waltz matilda — to travel the road carrying one's swag
  • warning light — a light that indicates danger
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