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13-letter words containing w

  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • gallowglasses — Plural form of gallowglass.
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • garrison town — a town containing a military base
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • george wither — George, 1588–1667, English poet and pamphleteer.
  • get away with — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
  • get somewhere — to make progress
  • get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • 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
  • glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • go along with — permit, consent to
  • go swimmingly — If you say that something is going swimmingly, you mean that everything is happening in a satisfactory way, without any problems.
  • 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.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • golden yellow — of yellow with a tinge of gold
  • 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.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • 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.
  • granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • great ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
  • 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.
  • growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
  • 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.
  • gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • 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)
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