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13-letter words containing w, a, n, t, e, s

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • strong waters — an archaic name for alcoholic drink
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • sweet-natured — having a pleasant temperament and a gentle nature
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
  • wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • 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
  • waterlessness — Absence of water.
  • 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.
  • weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • weatherperson — a meteorologist or weathercaster.
  • wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
  • 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 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 paterson — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • 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.
  • western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
  • western ghats — a mountain range in W peninsular India, parallel to the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Highest peak: Anai Mudi, 2695 m (8841 ft)
  • western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
  • western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
  • western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
  • 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)
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
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