13-letter words containing w, a, t
- 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.
- throw a party — host a celebration
- throw a punch — try to hit sb
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- to start with — To start with means at the very first stage of an event or process.
- 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.
- town planning — city planning.
- 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
- training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
- trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- 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
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
- two of a kind — two similar people or things
- 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.
- unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- 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.
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- 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.
- wacky tobacky — marijuana.
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walk out with — to court or be courted by