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

  • well-orientedthe Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
  • well-seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
  • wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • 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
  • within bounds — not beyond limits
  • 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.
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wonder-worker — a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
  • wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
  • woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
  • 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
  • wooden tongue — actinobacillosis.
  • wooden-headed — thick-headed, dull; stupid.
  • 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 deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
  • word of honor — a pledge of one's honor that a specified condition, bargain, etc., will be fulfilled; oath; promise.
  • 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.
  • wordsworthianWilliam, 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 war one — international conflict of 1914-1919
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
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