13-letter words containing e, a, r, w
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the last word — final retort
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- to the marrow — deeply
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
- turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- two-part time — duple time.
- tyne and wear — a metropolitan county in N England.
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
- unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
- urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
- urban renewal — the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wall streeter — a person who is employed on Wall Street or in the financial district.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
- war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
- war of nerves — a conflict using psychological techniques, as propaganda, threats, and false rumors, rather than direct violence, in order to confuse, thwart, or intimidate an enemy.
- war-weariness — exhaustion and low spirits caused by a long period of fighting
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- warranty deed — a deed containing a covenant of warranty.
- warren burger — Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.