13-letter words containing c, a, w
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
- water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
- 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.
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
- waygoing crop — away-going crop.
- wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
- weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
- weathercaster — an announcer on a radio or television station who delivers the weathercast.
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- 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.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
- what the heck — You say 'what the heck' to indicate that you do not care about a bad aspect of an action or situation.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white crappie — See under crappie.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- 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.
- wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
- 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.
- 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.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- 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.