13-letter words containing w, i, l, e, s
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- 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
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
- penny whistle — a type of flageolet with six finger holes, esp a cheap one made of metal
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
- sit well with — to be agreeable to
- slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- speed walking — power walking.
- spider flower — cleome
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- swindle sheet — an expense account.
- swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
- swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
- swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
- 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.
- 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).