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

  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
  • neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  • stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
  • water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
  • waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
  • 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
  • wedding dress — gown worn by a bride
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • well dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
  • well-dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
  • well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
  • well-ordering — an ordering in which every nonempty subset has a least member under the relation
  • well-orientedthe Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • 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.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
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