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16-letter words containing w, e, i, l

  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
  • phillis wheatley — Phillis [fil-is] /ˈfɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1753?–84, American poet, born in Africa; probably Senegal.
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • poiseuille's law — the law that the velocity of a liquid flowing through a capillary is directly proportional to the pressure of the liquid and the fourth power of the radius of the capillary and is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the liquid and the length of the capillary.
  • portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
  • powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
  • pressure welding — the welding together of two objects by holding them together under pressure.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • railway carriage — a railway coach for passengers
  • rainbow lorikeet — a small Australasian parrot, Trichoglossus haematodus, with brightly-coloured plumage
  • rear-wheel drive — a layout in motor vehicles which places the engine at the front and the driven wheels at the rear
  • regional network — mid-level network
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • royal water lily — a water lily, Victoria amazonica (or V. regia), of the Amazon River and British Guiana, having floating leaves from three to six feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters) wide, the upturned margins from two to four inches (5 to 10 cm) high, and dull crimson flowers.
  • sb will be lucky — If you say that someone will be lucky to do or get something, you mean that they are very unlikely to do or get it, and will definitely not do or get any more than that.
  • seidlitz powders — a mild laxative consisting of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and Rochelle salt, which are dissolved separately, mixed, and drunk after effervescence.
  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • swine erysipelas — erysipelas (def 2).
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the worried well — people who are healthy but are concerned about becoming ill and so take medication or see a medical practitioner when they don't need to
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • topless swimsuit — swimsuit which has no covering for the breasts
  • torricelli's law — the law that states that the speed of flow of a liquid from an orifice is equal to the speed that it would attain if falling freely a distance equal to the height of the free surface of the liquid above the orifice.
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • twelvepenny nail — a nail that is 3 1/4 inches (8.25 cm) long.
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • up with the lark — up early in the morning
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
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