13-letter words containing s, w, i, e
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- well-supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- welsh terrier — one of a Welsh breed of terriers having a wiry, black-and-tan coat, resembling an Airedale but smaller.
- welterweights — Plural form of welterweight.
- west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
- west berliner — a native or inhabitant of the part of Berlin formerly under US, British, and French control
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- west frisians — See under Frisian Islands.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
- west virginia — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
- 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 swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
- what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- white settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
- whithersoever — Wherever.
- whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- widow's weeds — a widow's black mourning clothes
- wife swapping — sexual activity in which two or more married couples exchange partners.
- wife's equity — a wife's right to have provision made for her and her children out of her estate, without the aid of a court of equity, if her husband cannot obtain the funds
- 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 allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- williams pear — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard