16-letter words containing w, e, l, s, p
- american cowslip — shooting star (def 2).
- bowman's capsule — a membranous, double-walled capsule surrounding a glomerulus of a nephron.
- capsule wardrobe — a collection of clothes and accessories that includes only items considered essential
- chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
- crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- freshwater pearl — any of the small pearls produced especially by freshwater mussels.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
- know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
- lesser spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, R. flammula, of the genus Ranunculus, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
- lost-wax process — a process of investment casting in which a refractory mold is built up around a pattern of wax and then baked so as to melt and drain off the wax.
- optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
- 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.
- pressure welding — the welding together of two objects by holding them together under pressure.
- public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
- raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
- reprocessed wool — wool cloth respun and rewoven from the raveled fibers of unused cloth, such as the waste or clippings from a garment factory
- rochelle powders — (not in technical use) Seidlitz powders.
- 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.
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- sleep-wake cycle — Physiology. the species-specific biological pattern of alternating sleep and wakefulness, in humans roughly 8 hours of nocturnal sleep and 16 hours of daytime activity.
- smokeless powder — any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- superb blue wren — a small Australian bird, Malurus cyaneus, the adult male of which has bright blue plumage
- swash plate pump — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis
- 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 yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
- topless swimsuit — swimsuit which has no covering for the breasts
- 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.)
- welfare payments — government benefits
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- well-represented — having good or sufficient representation
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
- whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
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