13-letter words containing w, a, s, u
- queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
- snowball bush — guelder rose.
- southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
- southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sweat bullets — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- 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 alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
- sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
- sweet-natured — having a pleasant temperament and a gentle nature
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- ups and downs — good and bad experiences
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- water opossum — yapok.
- water-soluble — capable of dissolving in water.
- waterthrushes — Plural form of waterthrush.
- weather house — a model house with two human figures, one that comes out to foretell bad weather and the other to foretell good weather
- well-adjusted — arranged or fitted properly: Properly adjusted shelving will accommodate books of various heights.
- well-measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- well-situated — located; placed.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- west st. paul — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- winnepesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winnipesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- with pleasure — gladly, willingly
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated