13-letter words containing c, w, i
- 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.
- 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.
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- well-depicted — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
- well-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- 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.
- well-received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- 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 bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- 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.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- whip scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
- whipstitching — Present participle of whipstitch.
- 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 knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- 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
- white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- 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.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- 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.