13-letter words containing w, e, b, a
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- finback whale — rorqual
- hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- know by heart — have memorized
- knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- lower chamber — lower house.
- made-down bed — a makeshift bed, as a pallet, placed on the floor for sleeping.
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
- new ball game — a new or changed situation: Once we're out of debt it'll be a whole new ball game.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- non-renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- obi-wan error — (programming) /oh'bee-won" er"*r/ (RPI, from "off-by-one" and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars") A kind of off-by-one error.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- rabbit warren — warren.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- sweat bullets — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
- to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.