13-letter words containing a, n, d, w
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
- west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- 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.
- wine and dine — the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- wing and wing — with a sail extended on each side, as with the foresail out on one side and the mainsail out on the other.
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- witness stand — the place occupied by a person giving testimony in a court.
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wooden indian — a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar stores as an advertisement.
- wooden-headed — thick-headed, dull; stupid.
- 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.
- wrapped up in — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.