13-letter words containing w, a, l, s, e, n
- sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- 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
- speed walking — power walking.
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- 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.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- 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.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
- waterlessness — Absence of water.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- well-answered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- well-reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- well-seasoned — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- 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 flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
- west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.