13-letter words containing t, h, e, w, d
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
- the last word — final retort
- the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
- the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
- this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
- thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- weather radar — radar designed or suitable for use in detecting clouds and precipitation.
- weather-bound — delayed or shut in by bad weather.
- weatherboards — Plural form of weatherboard.
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- 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.
- whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- 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 pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
- white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
- white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- who-does-what — (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by different trade unions
- wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
- wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
- winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
- 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.