13-letter words containing w, r, i
- british white — a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cavalry twill — a strong woollen twill fabric used for trousers, etc
- cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
- chester white — a variety of large, white hog
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
- christ within — (in Quakerism) the light of Christ in the soul of every person, considered as a guiding force.
- cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
- cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
- conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
- cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
- counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
- cucurbit wilt — a disease of cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family, characterized by wilted leaves, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia tracheiphila.
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- dick size war — penis war
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- dormer window — in sloping roof
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.