13-letter words containing w, a, i, n, s
- speed walking — power walking.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
- station wagon — an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steve wozniak — (person) Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
- taiwan strait — strait between Taiwan & Fujian province, China, joining the East & South China seas: c. 100 mi (161 km) wide
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- 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.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- 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
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
- war-weariness — exhaustion and low spirits caused by a long period of fighting
- warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
- water parsnip — a perennial aquatic plant; Berula erecta
- water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- watering spot — watering hole
- 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.
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- 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 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 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.