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13-letter words containing w, e, d

  • ideal gas law — the law that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
  • 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
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • 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.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
  • made-down bed — a makeshift bed, as a pallet, placed on the floor for sleeping.
  • 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
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • maxwell demon — a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
  • meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • 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.
  • mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
  • mendel's laws — law of segregation.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
  • midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
  • 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.
  • murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
  • 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.
  • ne'er-do-well — an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
  • 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 amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
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