13-letter words containing w, i, s, d
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- 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-fisted — tight-fisted.
- 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-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- nitwittedness — The quality of being nitwitted.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pussy-whipped — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
- sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
- saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- 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.
- 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
- sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- 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
- side whiskers — sideburns: hair at side of man's face
- 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
- 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.
- speed walking — power walking.
- spider flower — cleome
- 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
- 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.