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13-letter words containing w, o, l

  • glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • go along with — permit, consent to
  • go swimmingly — If you say that something is going swimmingly, you mean that everything is happening in a satisfactory way, without any problems.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • golden yellow — of yellow with a tinge of gold
  • goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
  • high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
  • hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
  • hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
  • homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
  • hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
  • hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • i'll show you — You can say 'I'll show you' to threaten or warn someone that you are going to make them admit that they are wrong.
  • indian mallow — Also called velvetleaf. an Asian plant, Abutilon theophrasti, of the mallow family, having velvety leaves and yellow flowers: it is cultivated in China for its jutelike fiber and has become naturalized as a weed in North America.
  • 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
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • knitting wool — wool used for knitting
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
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