13-letter words containing i, n, l, a, w
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
- 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
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
- west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- 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.
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- writing table — a table designed or used for writing at