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13-letter words containing w, e, d, i, n

  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • indecency law — the law relating to indecency
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • into the wind — against the wind or upwind
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
  • neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • nitwittedness — The quality of being nitwitted.
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
  • pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
  • saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
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