13-letter words containing w, n, p, l
- a clean sweep — If you make a clean sweep of something such as a series of games or tournaments, you win them all.
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
- nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
- parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
- 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.
- 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.
- pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
- pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- pure new wool — the best wool or wool blended fibres
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- speed walking — power walking.
- swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
- town planning — city planning.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- 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).
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
- wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
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