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13-letter words containing w, i, n, d, r

  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • hand-wringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
  • 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.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
  • midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • 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-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 fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • ribbon window — a long window made up of a number of individual compartments set together horizontally with little or no division.
  • 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
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
  • south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
  • 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.
  • swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
  • taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
  • 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.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • 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.
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