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

  • 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
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • 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.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • 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
  • sweat bullets — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • 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 william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • 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
  • 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-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • 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.
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • 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
  • 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.
  • unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • 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.
  • vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
  • 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
  • walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
  • walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
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