13-letter words containing w, s, d
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- slow dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another over a period of about three of four seconds
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- small forward — a versatile attacking player
- solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
- southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
- sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- speed walking — power walking.
- spider flower — cleome
- spy wednesday — (in Ireland) the Wednesday before Easter, named for Judas' becoming a spy for the Sanhedrin
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
- stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
- sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
- sweater dress — a dress made of knitted or crocheted material, esp a heavy one worn for warmth
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sweet-natured — having a pleasant temperament and a gentle nature
- sweet-scented — having a pleasant and sweet smell; fragrant.
- sweet-toothed — having a strong liking for sweet foods
- swindle sheet — an expense account.
- swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
- the last word — final retort
- this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
- thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- to down tools — If you say that workers down tools, you mean that they stop working suddenly in order to strike or to make a protest of some kind.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
- ups and downs — good and bad experiences
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- waldorf salad — a salad of celery, diced apples, nuts, and mayonnaise.
- warts and all — despite flaws
- wash-and-wear — noting or pertaining to a garment that can be washed, that dries quickly, and that requires little or no ironing; drip-dry.
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.