13-letter words containing c, r, e, w
- well-received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
- well-scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- 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
- 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
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- wide receiver — an offensive player positioned wide of the formation, as a split end, used primarily as a pass receiver.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- 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.
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- 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 rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris