13-letter words containing a, d, r, o, w, n
- outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- send away for — order by post
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- weapons-grade — Weapons-grade substances such as uranium or plutonium are of a quality which makes them suitable for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
- weather-bound — delayed or shut in by bad weather.
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- word deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- world war one — international conflict of 1914-1919
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.