13-letter words containing w, a, t, l
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- 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.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- 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.
- 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.
- fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- 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
- girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
- go along with — permit, consent to
- 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.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kwazulu-natal — a province of NE South Africa; replaced the former province of Natal in 1994: service industries. Capital: Pietermaritzburg. Pop: 10 267 300 (2011 est). Area: 92 180 sq km (35 591 sq miles)
- 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
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- 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
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
- 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.