13-letter words containing w, i, g, n
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
- town planning — city planning.
- training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
- twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
- twenty-eighth — next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
- twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unwillingness — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
- wang jing wei — 1883–1944, Chinese politician. A leading revolutionary, he struggled (1927–32) with Chiang Kai-shek for control of the Kuomintang. During World War II he was head of a Japanese puppet government in Nanjing
- wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
- wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- water parting — a watershed or divide.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
- 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
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- watering spot — watering hole
- waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- waygoing crop — away-going crop.
- wedding bells — church bells that peal after marriage ceremony
- wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
- wedding dress — gown worn by a bride
- wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
- wedding guest — sb invited to a marriage ceremony
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- weigh in with — to introduce or contribute (an idea or opinion) to a discussion, argument, etc.
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.