0%

14-letter words containing w, e, l, o

  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
  • flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • hell on wheels — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?