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

  • te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • town planning — city planning.
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • two of a kind — two similar people or things
  • unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • walter pistonWalter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • 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.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • 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 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).
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • word painting — an effective verbal description.
  • wordsworthianWilliam, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
  • working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
  • 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.
  • you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties
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