13-letter words containing w, i, d, t
- 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
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
- 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.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nitwittedness — The quality of being nitwitted.
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- ottawa euclid — Euclid
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
- saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- shooting-down — fatal shooting
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
- 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.
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
- swindle sheet — an expense account.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
- the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
- third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
- this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- 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.
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- two of a kind — two similar people or things
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up