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13-letter words containing w, i, l, d

  • hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
  • hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
  • hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
  • ideal gas law — the law that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
  • indecency law — the law relating to indecency
  • indian mallow — Also called velvetleaf. an Asian plant, Abutilon theophrasti, of the mallow family, having velvety leaves and yellow flowers: it is cultivated in China for its jutelike fiber and has become naturalized as a weed in North America.
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
  • lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • 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.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • 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
  • pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
  • slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
  • sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
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