17-letter words containing w, e, l, d, r
- sb could do worse — If you tell someone that they could do worse than do a particular thing, you are advising them that it would be quite a good thing to do.
- schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
- second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
- sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
- small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
- sword of damocles — Damocles (def 2).
- technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
- the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
- thermal underwear — underwear designed to retain body heat in cold temperatures.
- tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
- wage differential — the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
- well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
- well-proportioned — adjusted to proper proportion or relation.
- white-tailed deer — a common North American deer, Odocoileus virginianus, having a tail with a white underside.
- wild service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
- withdrawal method — a method of contraception in which the man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina before ejaculation
- world without end — for ever