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

  • sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
  • sweater dress — a dress made of knitted or crocheted material, esp a heavy one worn for warmth
  • 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 cassava — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Manihot, of the spurge family, as M. esculenta (bitter cassava) and M. dulcis (sweet cassava) cultivated for their tuberous roots, which yield important food products.
  • sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • 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
  • 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
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • taffeta weave — plain weave.
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • 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
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • 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 whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • to the marrow — deeply
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • 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
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
  • two-part time — duple time.
  • tyne and wear — a metropolitan county in N England.
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
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