13-letter words containing c, w, o
- 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
- 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-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- 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.
- wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
- 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
- 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