13-letter words containing wo
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- two-part time — duple time.
- two-word verb — a phrasal verb.
- twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
- untrustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- upon my word! — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- wear two hats — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- wedgwood blue — a blue-gray color, especially one characteristic of Wedgwood ceramic ware.
- wibbly-wobbly — wobbly
- woebegoneness — The quality of being woebegone.
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- women in love — a novel (1920) by D. H. Lawrence.
- women's group — A women's group is a group of women who meet regularly, usually in order to organize campaigns.
- won't be long — If you say that someone won't be long, you mean that you think they will arrive or be back soon. If you say that it won't be long before something happens, you mean that you think it will happen soon.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wonder-worker — a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
- wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wood hedgehog — a pale buff basidiomycetous fungus, Hydnum repandum, found in broad-leaved woodlands having a spiny underside to the cap
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wooden indian — a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar stores as an advertisement.
- wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
- wooden tongue — actinobacillosis.
- wooden-headed — thick-headed, dull; stupid.
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
- woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
- woolly-headed — having hair of a woolly texture or appearance.
- woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
- word deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
- word for word — in exactly the same words; verbatim.
- word of honor — a pledge of one's honor that a specified condition, bargain, etc., will be fulfilled; oath; promise.
- word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- work overtime — work extra hours
- work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.