13-letter words containing s, o, w, i, n
- 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.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
- swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- watering spot — watering hole
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- whip scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- 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
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- 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.
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- wishbone boom — a boom on a sailboard having two arms that are joined at the mast and at the foot of the sail. The windsurfer holds onto it for support and to steer the sailboard
- 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 knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.