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13-letter words containing k, w, e

  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • power workers — the people who work in the power industry
  • prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
  • sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
  • salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • side whiskers — sideburns: hair at side of man's face
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • steve wozniak — (person)   Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • unknowingness — a state of not knowing
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