13-letter words containing d, o, w, n, t
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- shooting-down — fatal shooting
- 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-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.
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- 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.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
- the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- to down tools — If you say that workers down tools, you mean that they stop working suddenly in order to strike or to make a protest of some kind.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
- two of a kind — two similar people or things
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- 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
- weather-bound — delayed or shut in by bad weather.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wooden tongue — actinobacillosis.
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.