13-letter words containing w, a, r, e, n
- well-arranged — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- well-mannered — polite; courteous.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
- 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 paterson — a town in NE New Jersey.
- 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)
- western ghats — a mountain range in W peninsular India, parallel to the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Highest peak: Anai Mudi, 2695 m (8841 ft)
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
- western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- whare wananga — a university
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- 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.
- 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.
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- word deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- works manager — a factory manager
- world war one — international conflict of 1914-1919
- wrapped up in — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- writing paper — paper on which to write.
- writing table — a table designed or used for writing at
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.