16-letter words containing s, w, a, t
- waterless cooker — a tight-lidded kitchen utensil in which food can be cooked using only a small amount of water or only the juices emitted while cooking.
- watson-wentworth — Charles, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham [rok-ing-uh m] /ˈrɒk ɪŋ əm/ (Show IPA), 1730–82, British statesman: prime minister 1765–66, 1782.
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
- weather forecast — meteorological prediction
- weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
- welfare benefits — financial assistance; social security payment
- welfare payments — government benefits
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
- well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- west valley city — city in NC Utah, near Salt Lake City: pop. 109,000
- western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
- what's the odds? — what difference does it make?
- whatchamacallits — Plural form of whatchamacallit.
- whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
- white as a sheet — pale: from shock, fright, etc.
- white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
- whole-tone scale — a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C.
- wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
- wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- witches' sabbath — Sabbat.
- with clean hands — innocently
- woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
- woody nightshade — bittersweet (def 3).
- word association — stimulation of an associative pattern by a word.
- world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
- worth one's salt — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
- yellowstone lake — a lake in NW Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park. 20 miles (32 km) long; 140 sq. mi. (363 sq. km).