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13-letter words containing w, o, l

  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • cassel yellow — a lemon-yellow color.
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chrome yellow — any yellow pigment consisting of lead chromate mixed with lead sulphate
  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
  • cobalt yellow — aureolin.
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • come to blows — to fight
  • common mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
  • common sallow — a small Eurasian willow tree, Salix cinerea, which has large catkins that appear before the leaves
  • commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
  • complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
  • corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • could do with — If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it.
  • coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
  • cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • crowd control — the management of crowds at sporting events, demonstrations, etc, to prevent trouble
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
  • cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
  • customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • 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.
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