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13-letter words containing d, w, i

  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
  • dick size war — penis war
  • digital watch — a watch that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
  • dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
  • dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
  • dimwittedness — The state or condition of being dimwitted.
  • dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
  • disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
  • disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
  • disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
  • disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
  • dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • dormer window — in sloping roof
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double window — a window with two panes of glass
  • down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
  • draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • drive a wedge — If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
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