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13-letter words containing w, e, r, n

  • connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
  • conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
  • control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
  • cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
  • counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • death warrant — A death warrant is an official document which orders that someone is to be executed as a punishment for a crime.
  • dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
  • disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
  • dormer window — in sloping roof
  • down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
  • down the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • down to earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
  • draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • driving wheel — Machinery. a main wheel that communicates motion to others.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
  • father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
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