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13-letter words containing w, e, c

  • sweet cassava — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Manihot, of the spurge family, as M. esculenta (bitter cassava) and M. dulcis (sweet cassava) cultivated for their tuberous roots, which yield important food products.
  • sweet-scented — having a pleasant and sweet smell; fragrant.
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • 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.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • 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.
  • torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
  • water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
  • water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
  • wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercaster — an announcer on a radio or television station who delivers the weathercast.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
  • 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
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