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13-letter words containing w, c, l

  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • 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 lettuce — a floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, of the arum family, having a rosette of thick, spongy leaves.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
  • welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • well-accepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
  • well-affected — favourably disposed (towards); steadfast or loyal
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • well-balanced — rightly balanced, adjusted, or regulated: a well-balanced diet.
  • well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
  • well-composed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
  • well-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
  • well-cultured — enlightened; refined.
  • well-depicted — to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
  • well-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • well-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • well-executed — to carry out; accomplish: to execute a plan or order.
  • well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • well-received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
  • well-schooled — having been trained or educated sufficiently, as in a school
  • well-scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
  • well-selected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • welland canal — a ship canal in S Canada, in Ontario, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario: 8 locks. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west caldwell — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
  • western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
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