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13-letter words containing s, w, o, t

  • whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
  • whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
  • whithersoever — Wherever.
  • whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • who-does-what — (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by different trade unions
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
  • whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
  • 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
  • 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.
  • winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
  • 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 knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
  • within bounds — not beyond limits
  • within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • without cease — without stopping; incessantly
  • without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
  • woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
  • wordsworthianWilliam, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
  • work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
  • worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
  • 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.
  • yellow locust — black locust.
  • yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
  • yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.
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