13-letter words containing w, e, l, o
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- 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.
- potbelly wood — a load of firewood, approximately half a cord, cut in lengths of 16 inches (40 cm) or less for use in a potbelly stove.
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- power failure — electricity outage
- 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."
- relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- 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.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- 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.
- slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
- 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
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- 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
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
- 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.
- southwesterly — coming from the south west
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- spider flower — cleome
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- sumo wrestler — Japanese wrestling sportsman
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superpowerful — extremely powerful
- sweet trolley — (in a restaurant) a trolley on which desserts are brought to the table so that diners can choose from them
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s