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13-letter words containing t, w, i, r

  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • garrison town — a town containing a military base
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • george wither — George, 1588–1667, English poet and pamphleteer.
  • get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • growing point — the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
  • high-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
  • horror writer — a writer of horror fiction or horror stories
  • how's tricks? — how are you?
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • internet worm — (networking, security)   The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on machines it infected, which quickly used up all available processor time on those systems. Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
  • interviewee's — a person who is interviewed.
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • job interview — a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out if they are suitable for a post of employment
  • john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • letter-writer — a person who writes letters or communications
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
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