13-letter words containing d, h, o, w
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- nowhere-dense — (of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.
- old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- powder method — a method of x-ray determination of crystal structure using a powdered sample.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
- shooting-down — fatal shooting
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- show of hands — an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
- show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
- southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
- sweet-toothed — having a strong liking for sweet foods
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
- the last word — final retort
- the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
- thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- weather-bound — delayed or shut in by bad weather.