13-letter words containing e, w, a
- balance wheel — a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece, thereby regulating its beat
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
- battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
- benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- bewick's swan — a white Old World swan, Cygnus bewickii, having a black bill with a small yellow base
- binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
- bladder wrack — any of various brown algae (genera Ascophyllum and Fucus), having a flattened body and conspicuous air bladders
- blaenau gwent — a county borough of SE Wales, created in 1996 from NW Gwent. Administrative centre: Ebbw Vale. Pop: 68 900 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bottled water — water sold in bottles
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
- braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break it down — stop it
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
- cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
- caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.