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

  • 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.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • 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
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • 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.
  • royal warrant — an authorization to a tradesman to supply goods to a royal household
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • 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.
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • 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.
  • statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
  • sweat bullets — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
  • sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
  • 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.
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