13-letter words containing w, a, t
- walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
- walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
- wall streeter — a person who is employed on Wall Street or in the financial district.
- walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- waltz matilda — to travel the road carrying one's swag
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- warranty deed — a deed containing a covenant of warranty.
- warts and all — despite flaws
- wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
- wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.
- water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
- water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
- water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
- water feather — a water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum.
- water feature — A water feature is something such as an artificial pond or waterfall, usually in a garden.
- 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.
- water leguaan — a large amphibious monitor lizard, Varanus niloticus, which can grow up to 2 or 3 m
- water lettuce — a floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, of the arum family, having a rosette of thick, spongy leaves.
- water lobelia — Lobelia dortmanna
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- water opossum — yapok.
- water parsnip — a perennial aquatic plant; Berula erecta
- water parting — a watershed or divide.
- water platter — Santa Cruz water lily.
- water quality — Water quality is the degree to which water is clean, and whether it is suitable for drinking, for making plants grow, or for fish to live in, etc.
- water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
- water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
- water strider — any of several aquatic bugs of the family Gerridae, having long, slender legs fringed with hairs, enabling the insects to dart about on the surface of the water.