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13-letter words containing w, a, n, t, i

  • 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
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • wave equation — Mathematics, Physics. any differential equation that describes the propagation of waves or other disturbances in a medium.
  • wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
  • weaponization — Standard spelling of from=American spelling.
  • weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west frisians — See under Frisian Islands.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
  • west virginia — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
  • 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)
  • wetting agent — any admixture to a liquid for increasing its ability to penetrate, or spread over the surface of, a given material, especially cloth, paper, or leather.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • 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.
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
  • winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
  • winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
  • winter savory — See under savory2 .
  • winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
  • winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
  • winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
  • 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.
  • wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
  • wire-transfer — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
  • within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • 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 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).
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