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13-letter words containing w, a, d, e, i, n

  • painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
  • saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
  • 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.
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • 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
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
  • waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • 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)
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
  • winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
  • wine and dine — the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
  • winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
  • witness stand — the place occupied by a person giving testimony in a court.
  • witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
  • wooden indian — a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar stores as an advertisement.
  • wrapped up in — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
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