13-letter words containing w, e, l, d, r
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- 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.
- ne'er-do-well — an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
- 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.
- 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.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- 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.
- reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
- spider flower — cleome
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- the last word — final retort
- the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
- third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
- toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- 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.
- unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
- urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- 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
- web developer — a person or company that develops World Wide Web software applications, or that creates and maintains websites.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well arranged — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- 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 governed — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- well-answered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- well-arranged — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- well-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another