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13-letter words containing w, e, a, p

  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • 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.
  • two-part time — duple time.
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
  • wah-wah pedal — a foot pedal attached to an electronic musical instrument, used to create a sound that simulates the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered
  • walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • water opossum — yapok.
  • water parsnip — a perennial aquatic plant; Berula erecta
  • water parting — a watershed or divide.
  • water platter — Santa Cruz water lily.
  • water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
  • water-proofed — impervious to water.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
  • weaponization — Standard spelling of from=American spelling.
  • weapons-grade — Weapons-grade substances such as uranium or plutonium are of a quality which makes them suitable for use in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
  • weather strip — a thin strip of compressible material, such as spring metal, felt, etc, that is fitted between the frame of a door or window and the opening part to exclude wind and rain
  • weather-strip — to apply weather stripping to (something).
  • weatherperson — a meteorologist or weathercaster.
  • weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
  • weatherstrips — Plural form of weatherstrip.
  • weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
  • well-accepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
  • well-operated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
  • well-prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
  • west paterson — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • west st. paul — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
  • whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
  • white crappie — See under crappie.
  • 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
  • wife swapping — sexual activity in which two or more married couples exchange partners.
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