13-letter words containing w, a, b, r
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
- hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- know by heart — have memorized
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- non-renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- obi-wan error — (programming) /oh'bee-won" er"*r/ (RPI, from "off-by-one" and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars") A kind of off-by-one error.
- outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
- outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- rabbit warren — warren.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- 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.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
- urban renewal — the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
- warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
- warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- warren burger — Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.
- water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.