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13-letter words containing w, a, t, e, r, l

  • mineral water — water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, especially such water considered healthful to drink.
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • network layer — (networking)   (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
  • silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • 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
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
  • unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
  • wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
  • wall streeter — a person who is employed on Wall Street or in the financial district.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
  • wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
  • water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
  • water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
  • water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.
  • 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.
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