13-letter words containing t, w, a, l, e
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
- sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
- sweat bullets — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- 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.
- tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
- 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.
- tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the last word — final retort
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
- unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
- unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
- walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides