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13-letter words containing w, a

  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break it down — stop it
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
  • by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
  • cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
  • cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
  • cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
  • cassel yellow — a lemon-yellow color.
  • casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
  • cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
  • catch up with — When people catch up with someone who has done something wrong, they succeed in finding them in order to arrest or punish them.
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cavalry twill — a strong woollen twill fabric used for trousers, etc
  • cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
  • cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
  • charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
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