13-letter words containing w, o, r, i, e, s
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- spider flower — cleome
- sports writer — A sports writer is a journalist who writes about sport.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- 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.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- 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.
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- twitter storm — a message on the Twitter website which attracts a significant amount of attention from other Twitter users and may be picked up by mainstream media
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
- 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-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- watering spot — watering hole
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- whithersoever — Wherever.
- whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
- 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.
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- wireless room — a room on a premises, on a ship, etc where radio equipment is installed
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.