13-letter words containing o, e, d, i
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- 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-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- xenodiagnosis — a method of diagnosing certain diseases caused by insects, ticks, or other vectors, by allowing uninfected vectors to feed on the patient and later examining them for infections.
- yekaterinodar — a former name of Krasnodar.
- yo-yo dieting — a repeated cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain.
- young ireland — a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted
- yttrium oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, Y 2 O 3 , used chiefly in incandescent gas and acetylene mantles.
- zero altitude — the height at which the atmospheric pressure is 610.5Pa
- zinc chloride — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous solid, ZnCl 2 , used chiefly as a wood preservative, as a disinfectant and antiseptic, and in the manufacture of vulcanized fiber, parchment paper, and soldering fluxes.