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13-letter words containing w, r, i

  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
  • growing point — the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
  • guerrilla war — a war between an established army and a guerrilla group
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • hand-wringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
  • happy warrior — a person who is undiscouraged by difficulties or opposition.
  • hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
  • high-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
  • homeownership — a person who owns a home.
  • hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
  • horror writer — a writer of horror fiction or horror stories
  • horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • how's tricks? — how are you?
  • hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
  • hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • if i were you — You say 'if I were you' to someone when you are giving them advice.
  • impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • in harm's way — If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
  • inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
  • industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • internet worm — (networking, security)   The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on machines it infected, which quickly used up all available processor time on those systems. Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
  • interviewee's — a person who is interviewed.
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • iran-iraq war — the war (1980–88) fought by Iran and Iraq, following the Iraqi invasion of disputed border territory in Iran. It ended indecisively with no important gains on either side: Iraq subsequently (1990) conceded the disputed territory
  • irc penis war — penis war
  • irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • job interview — a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out if they are suitable for a post of employment
  • john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • letter-writer — a person who writes letters or communications
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
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