13-letter words containing w, s, d
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- form of words — the type of words and phrases used
- forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- goodwin sands — a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.
- grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
- groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- 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.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- 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.
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- ideal gas law — the law that the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas is equal to the product of the absolute temperature of the gas and the universal gas constant.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
- kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- locked bowels — constipation.
- loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
- mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- mendel's laws — law of segregation.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.