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13-letter words containing w, e, l, o, r, n

  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • pure new wool — the best wool or wool blended fibres
  • real soon now — (jargon, humour)   (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • 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
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • well governed — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • well-governed — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • well-grounded — based on good reasons; well-founded: His opposition to the scheme is well-grounded.
  • well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
  • well-ordering — an ordering in which every nonempty subset has a least member under the relation
  • well-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
  • whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
  • willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
  • wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
  • wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
  • wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
  • wool merchant — a dealer in wool
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
  • world war one — international conflict of 1914-1919
  • worthlessness — The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
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