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

  • fellow inmate — sb in same prison
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • 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.
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • 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.
  • 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
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • javelle water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • 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
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
  • might as well — have no reason not to
  • mineral water — water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, especially such water considered healthful to drink.
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • multimegawatt — producing or involving several million watts of power
  • 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.
  • network layer — (networking)   (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • 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.
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • 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.
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
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