13-letter words containing w, a, r, l, e
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- 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.
- dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- 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.
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- 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
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- 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.
- 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.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- gallows frame — headframe.
- 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
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
- guerrilla war — a war between an established army and a guerrilla group
- javelle water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
- kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- 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.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- 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 and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- 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).
- lower chamber — lower house.