13-letter words containing a, d, e, r, w
- edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
- edward lorenz — (person) A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- 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.
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
- great ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
- law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- 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
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
- narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- new zealander — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
- newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
- no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
- non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.