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

  • 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.
  • well-situated — located; placed.
  • 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)
  • whidah (bird) — whydah (bird)
  • whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • 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.
  • whydah (bird) — any of several chiefly brown-and-black, African passerine birds (family Ploceidae): the male has long, drooping tail feathers during the breeding season
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
  • wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
  • wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
  • wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
  • wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
  • wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
  • wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
  • wild marjoram — a similar and related European plant, Origanum vulgare
  • wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
  • wildlife park — animal reserve
  • winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • wing and wing — with a sail extended on each side, as with the foresail out on one side and the mainsail out on the other.
  • 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.
  • wolffian body — the mesonephros.
  • wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
  • wooden indian — a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar stores as an advertisement.
  • word painting — an effective verbal description.
  • word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
  • words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
  • wordsworthianWilliam, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
  • world war iii — a hypothetical world war of the future, often conceived as a nuclear war resulting in the total destruction of the human race.
  • world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
  • 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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