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13-letter words containing w, h, o, l, e

  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • 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.
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
  • nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
  • old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • 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.
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • 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
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • well-schooled — having been trained or educated sufficiently, as in a school
  • wheel of life — the symbol of the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.
  • wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
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