13-letter words containing w, e, l, d, i
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- 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.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- ottawa euclid — Euclid
- pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
- speed walking — power walking.
- spider flower — cleome
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- swindle sheet — an expense account.
- swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
- third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
- toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
- 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
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- wedding bells — church bells that peal after marriage ceremony
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well disposed — If you are well disposed to a person, plan, or activity, you are likely to agree with them or support them.
- 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 supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- well-depicted — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- well-designed — made or done intentionally; intended; planned.
- well-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- well-disposed — favorably, sympathetically, or kindly disposed: The sponsors are well-disposed toward our plan.
- 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-equipped — to furnish or provide with whatever is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army: They spent several thousand dollars to equip their boat.
- well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- well-finished — ended or completed.
- well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.