13-letter words containing r, e, s, w
- dick size war — penis war
- 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.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
- downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- 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
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- 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.
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- free-swimming — (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
- free-swinging — recklessly daring in action or style: free-swinging stock market speculators.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- gallows frame — headframe.
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- get somewhere — to make progress
- get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
- gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
- groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- home row keys — home keys
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.