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

  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • 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
  • mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • of many words — talkative
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
  • outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
  • outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • 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.
  • railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
  • 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
  • ready-to-wear — clothing made in standard sizes; ready-made clothing.
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • send away for — order by post
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • small forward — a versatile attacking player
  • solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
  • southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
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