13-letter words containing w, a, r, c, h
- 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
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- throw a punch — try to hit sb
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
- 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 out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
- weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
- weathercaster — an announcer on a radio or television station who delivers the weathercast.
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
- 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
- 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
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool