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

  • wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
  • wind scorpion — sun spider.
  • winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • 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 and dine — the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
  • wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
  • wing and wing — with a sail extended on each side, as with the foresail out on one side and the mainsail out on the other.
  • winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
  • within bounds — not beyond limits
  • witness stand — the place occupied by a person giving testimony in a court.
  • witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
  • 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.
  • 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-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • wrapped up in — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
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