13-letter words containing n, s, w, t
- western ghats — a mountain range in W peninsular India, parallel to the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Highest peak: Anai Mudi, 2695 m (8841 ft)
- western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
- western isles — an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
- western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- whipstitching — Present participle of whipstitch.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
- 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
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
- wire-transfer — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- with interest — plus money owed
- with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- within limits — If you add within limits to a statement, you mean that it is true or applies only when talking about reasonable or normal situations.
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- witness stand — the place occupied by a person giving testimony in a court.
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- worthlessness — The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.