13-letter words containing d, o, w, i
- well-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- well-provided — having been furnished or supplied with a sufficient amount
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- widow's weeds — a widow's black mourning clothes
- 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
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- window winder — a device on the inside of a car door which is turned to raise or lower the window above it
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- 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.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- without doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
- wooden indian — a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar stores as an advertisement.
- wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
- woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
- woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
- 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.
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
- working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- 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-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.