13-letter words containing win
- 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.
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- spurious wing — alula (def 1).
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- 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.
- taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
- western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
- window winder — a device on the inside of a car door which is turned to raise or lower the window above it
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine and dine — the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- wine-bottling — the process of transferring wine from a large container to individual bottles
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wing and wing — with a sail extended on each side, as with the foresail out on one side and the mainsail out on the other.
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- winnepesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winnipesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties