16-letter words containing w, e, l, p, o
- two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
- 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
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- will-o'-the-wisp — ignis fatuus (def 1).
- windowpane shell — capiz.
- wolfenden report — a study produced in 1957 by the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Britain, which recommended that homosexual relations between consenting adults be legalized
- world exposition — world's fair.
- yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- yellow pimpernel — Lysimachia nemorum
- yellow poinciana — royal poinciana.