13-letter words containing w, i, e, l
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double window — a window with two panes of glass
- down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
- driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
- early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
- exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
- family jewels — a man's genitals
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- field of view — field (def 13).
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
- finagle's law — (humour) The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- finback whale — rorqual
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- guerrilla war — a war between an established army and a guerrilla group
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- ideal gas law — the law that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
- indecency law — the law relating to indecency
- indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.