13-letter words containing w, r
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- guerrilla war — a war between an established army and a guerrilla group
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- 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.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- 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
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- 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
- hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
- home row keys — home keys
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honore morrow — Honoré Willsie [on-uh-rey wil-see,, on-uh-rey] /ˈɒn əˌreɪ ˈwɪl si,, ˌɒn əˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1940, U.S. novelist.
- honors of war — special privileges granted to a defeated army, as that of continuing to bear arms
- hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
- hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
- horror writer — a writer of horror fiction or horror stories
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- house sparrow — a small, hardy, buffy-brown and gray bird, Passer domesticus, of Europe, introduced into America, Australia, etc.
- 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?
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- 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.