0%

13-letter words containing w, e, d

  • new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • new zealander — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
  • nitwittedness — The quality of being nitwitted.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
  • nonsense word — a word that has no real meaning
  • northeastward — the northeast.
  • northwestward — the northwest.
  • nowhere-dense — (of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • nylon letdown — evacuation from an aircraft by means of a parachute.
  • of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
  • old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • once and away — conclusively
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • 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.
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
  • painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • peer-reviewed — of or being scientific or scholarly writing or research that has undergone evaluation by other experts in the field (peer review) to judge if it merits publication or funding
  • pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
  • pop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • potbelly wood — a load of firewood, approximately half a cord, cut in lengths of 16 inches (40 cm) or less for use in a potbelly stove.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • powder method — a method of x-ray determination of crystal structure using a powdered sample.
  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • puncture weed — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • pussy-whipped — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • ready-to-wear — clothing made in standard sizes; ready-made clothing.
  • red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
  • 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.
  • reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?