13-letter words containing wi
- on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
- once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- overborrowing — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overwintering — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
- packet switch — packet switching
- palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
- periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
- play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
- red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
- relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
- reverse swing — a type of swing in which a ball that has been scuffed on one side will move in the opposite direction to that of a new ball
- ribbon window — a long window made up of a number of individual compartments set together horizontally with little or no division.
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
- shunt winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in parallel
- siamese twins — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- sit well with — to be agreeable to
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- sow wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- spurious wing — alula (def 1).
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- swimmer's ear — an inflammation of the outer ear occurring in persons who swim for long periods or fail to dry the ears.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
- swimming ring — an inflatable ring that you put around your waist to keep you afloat when you are learning to swim, or when you are not a very good swimmer; used esp for children