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13-letter words containing a, n, i

  • visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
  • visual binary — a binary star having components that are sufficiently separated to be resolved by a telescope.
  • visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
  • vitrification — act or process of vitrifying; state of being vitrified.
  • vivaciousness — lively; animated; spirited: a vivacious folk dance.
  • vocationalism — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
  • vocationalist — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
  • volcanic bomb — bomb (def 3).
  • volcanic cone — a conical hill produced by volcanic eruption of ash, cinders, or lava.
  • volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • volcanic tuff — tuff2 .
  • volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
  • voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
  • voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
  • vote-catching — relating to a means of securing votes
  • votive candle — religion: candle lit in prayer
  • vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
  • vulcanization — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
  • vulnerability — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
  • wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
  • wang jing wei — 1883–1944, Chinese politician. A leading revolutionary, he struggled (1927–32) with Chiang Kai-shek for control of the Kuomintang. During World War II he was head of a Japanese puppet government in Nanjing
  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • war-weariness — exhaustion and low spirits caused by a long period of fighting
  • warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
  • warning light — a light that indicates danger
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
  • warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
  • wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
  • water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
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