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13-letter words containing w, e, i, r, s

  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • walter pistonWalter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • war-weariness — exhaustion and low spirits caused by a long period of fighting
  • warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
  • water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
  • water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
  • water parsnip — a perennial aquatic plant; Berula erecta
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
  • water strider — any of several aquatic bugs of the family Gerridae, having long, slender legs fringed with hairs, enabling the insects to dart about on the surface of the water.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
  • weather strip — a thin strip of compressible material, such as spring metal, felt, etc, that is fitted between the frame of a door or window and the opening part to exclude wind and rain
  • weather-strip — to apply weather stripping to (something).
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • weatherstrips — Plural form of weatherstrip.
  • web publisher — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • wedding dress — gown worn by a bride
  • weightlifters — Plural form of weightlifter.
  • weird sisters — the Norns
  • well dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
  • well-dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
  • welsh terrier — one of a Welsh breed of terriers having a wiry, black-and-tan coat, resembling an Airedale but smaller.
  • welterweights — Plural form of welterweight.
  • west berliner — a native or inhabitant of the part of Berlin formerly under US, British, and French control
  • west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
  • 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 norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • 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 hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
  • western isles — an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)
  • western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
  • where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
  • whereinsoever — in whatever respect
  • whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • whithersoever — Wherever.
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