13-letter words containing w, i, n, d, r
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
- warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
- 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
- wedding dress — gown worn by a bride
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
- well-dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
- well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
- well-ordering — an ordering in which every nonempty subset has a least member under the relation
- well-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
- western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- window winder — a device on the inside of a car door which is turned to raise or lower the window above it
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
- working order — the condition of a mechanism when it is functioning properly: a stove in working order.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- wrapped up in — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.