13-letter words containing w, e, r
- window winder — a device on the inside of a car door which is turned to raise or lower the window above it
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
- wire-transfer — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- wireless room — a room on a premises, on a ship, etc where radio equipment is installed
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- with interest — plus money owed
- with pleasure — gladly, willingly
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- women's group — A women's group is a group of women who meet regularly, usually in order to organize campaigns.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wonder-worker — a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
- wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- word deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- work overtime — work extra hours
- work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
- working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
- working-women — a woman who is regularly employed.
- workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
- works manager — a factory manager
- world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- world war one — international conflict of 1914-1919