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

  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • 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.
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
  • underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • water strider — any of several aquatic bugs of the family Gerridae, having long, slender legs fringed with hairs, enabling the insects to dart about on the surface of the water.
  • 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
  • weird sisters — the Norns
  • well disposed — If you are well disposed to a person, plan, or activity, you are likely to agree with them or support them.
  • 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 supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
  • well-designed — made or done intentionally; intended; planned.
  • well-disposed — favorably, sympathetically, or kindly disposed: The sponsors are well-disposed toward our plan.
  • 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-finished — ended or completed.
  • well-invested — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • well-situated — located; placed.
  • well-supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • 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
  • whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
  • widow's weeds — a widow's black mourning clothes
  • wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
  • wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
  • wild spaniard — any of various subalpine perennials of the genus Aciphylla of New Zealand, with sharp leaves
  • wind scorpion — sun spider.
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • 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.
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
  • within bounds — not beyond limits
  • witness stand — the place occupied by a person giving testimony in a court.
  • witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
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