13-letter words containing w, r, e, n
- well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
- well-mannered — polite; courteous.
- well-nurtured — to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
- 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.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- well-rendered — to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- west berliner — a native or inhabitant of the part of Berlin formerly under US, British, and French control
- west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
- west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
- west frisians — See under Frisian Islands.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
- west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- west paterson — a town in NE New Jersey.
- west virginia — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- 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 ghats — a mountain range in W peninsular India, parallel to the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Highest peak: Anai Mudi, 2695 m (8841 ft)
- 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.
- western isles — an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
- western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
- whare wananga — a university
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- whether or no — under any circumstances
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- 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.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.