13-letter words containing r, w, d
- 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.
- wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
- whidah (bird) — whydah (bird)
- whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- whydah (bird) — any of several chiefly brown-and-black, African passerine birds (family Ploceidae): the male has long, drooping tail feathers during the breeding season
- wide receiver — an offensive player positioned wide of the formation, as a split end, used primarily as a pass receiver.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wild marjoram — a similar and related European plant, Origanum vulgare
- wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- window winder — a device on the inside of a car door which is turned to raise or lower the window above it
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wonder-worker — a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
- wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
- word deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
- word for word — in exactly the same words; verbatim.
- word of honor — a pledge of one's honor that a specified condition, bargain, etc., will be fulfilled; oath; promise.
- word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
- working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
- world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- world war iii — a hypothetical world war of the future, often conceived as a nuclear war resulting in the total destruction of the human race.
- world war one — international conflict of 1914-1919
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.