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13-letter words containing w, i, d, e, o

  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • into the wind — against the wind or upwind
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
  • neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • spider flower — cleome
  • stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
  • stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • 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
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