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13-letter words containing d, o, w, i

  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • 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.
  • ribbon window — a long window made up of a number of individual compartments set together horizontally with little or no division.
  • 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
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • 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
  • shooting-down — fatal shooting
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
  • sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
  • stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • 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.
  • swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • 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.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • two of a kind — two similar people or things
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • 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
  • 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
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • well disposed — If you are well disposed to a person, plan, or activity, you are likely to agree with them or support them.
  • well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
  • well-disposed — favorably, sympathetically, or kindly disposed: The sponsors are well-disposed toward our plan.
  • well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
  • well-ordering — an ordering in which every nonempty subset has a least member under the relation
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