13-letter words containing w, e, t, r, o
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- george wither — George, 1588–1667, English poet and pamphleteer.
- get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
- get somewhere — to make progress
- get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
- giant redwood — big tree.
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- horror writer — a writer of horror fiction or horror stories
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- internet worm — (networking, security) The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on machines it infected, which quickly used up all available processor time on those systems. Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- job interview — a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out if they are suitable for a post of employment
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- know by heart — have memorized
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
- meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- mooring tower — a mast or tower to which a balloon or airship may be moored
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- network storm — broadcast storm
- new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.