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13-letter words containing w, d, o

  • cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
  • disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
  • disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
  • disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
  • disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • dormer window — in sloping roof
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double window — a window with two panes of glass
  • down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
  • down the line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • down the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • down to earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • down-the-line — complete, full, unreserved, or whole-hearted: a down-the-line endorsement.
  • down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
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