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13-letter words containing w, a, i, c

  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • simware, inc. — (company)   The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
  • water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
  • water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • 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 columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
  • whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white crappie — See under crappie.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
  • wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
  • windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
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