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13-letter words containing w, a, l, o, e

  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • fellow inmate — sb in same prison
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • formal review — (project)   A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • gallowglasses — Plural form of gallowglass.
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • 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
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
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