13-letter words containing m, e, w, a
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- saint matthew — a tax collector of Capernaum called by Christ to be one of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9–13; 10:3). Feast day: Sept 21 or Nov 16
- salwar kameez — long tunic worn over a pair of baggy trousers
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
- seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
- show me state — Missouri (used as a nickname).
- show-me state — Missouri2
- siamese twins — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- swamp cypress — bald cypress.
- sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
- sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
- sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
- swimmer's ear — an inflammation of the outer ear occurring in persons who swim for long periods or fail to dry the ears.
- takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- to the marrow — deeply
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- two-part time — duple time.
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- 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
- wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- water opossum — yapok.
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weatherometer — an instrument for simulating weather conditions in order to determine weather-resistance
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.