13-letter words containing w, c, l
- whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
- white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.
- world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- wrecking ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow locust — black locust.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris