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13-letter words containing a, r, d, w, o

  • 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.
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • the last word — final retort
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
  • 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.
  • waldorf salad — a salad of celery, diced apples, nuts, and mayonnaise.
  • wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
  • warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • water-proofed — impervious to water.
  • 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.
  • weatherboards — Plural form of weatherboard.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • 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-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another
  • well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • well-operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
  • 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.
  • west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
  • wild marjoram — a similar and related European plant, Origanum vulgare
  • 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.
  • words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
  • wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
  • world war iii — a hypothetical world war of the future, often conceived as a nuclear war resulting in the total destruction of the human race.
  • 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.
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