13-letter words containing c, o, w, t
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
- twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
- wacky tobacky — marijuana.
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- 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.
- 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.
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- write-protect — to protect (a recordable disk) from accidental erasure or change; to mark (a file or disk) so that its contents cannot be modified or deleted.
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow locust — black locust.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
- you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties