13-letter words containing w, a, n, i, o
- weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- 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.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- 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.
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- 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.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties