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13-letter words containing c, a, l, w

  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • water lettuce — a floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, of the arum family, having a rosette of thick, spongy leaves.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
  • welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • well-accepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
  • well-affected — favourably disposed (towards); steadfast or loyal
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • well-balanced — rightly balanced, adjusted, or regulated: a well-balanced diet.
  • well-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • welland canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west caldwell — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
  • western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
  • whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
  • whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
  • wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
  • wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
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