13-letter words containing n, i, t, w, e
- west virginia — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
- western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
- western isles — an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)
- western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
- wetting agent — any admixture to a liquid for increasing its ability to penetrate, or spread over the surface of, a given material, especially cloth, paper, or leather.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- 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 pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
- white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
- white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
- wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
- winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- wine-bottling — the process of transferring wine from a large container to individual bottles
- 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 cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
- wire-transfer — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- with interest — plus money owed
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- 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.
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
- writing paper — paper on which to write.
- writing table — a table designed or used for writing at