13-letter words containing w, e, i, r, t
- white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white crappie — See under crappie.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white feather — a symbol of cowardice.
- white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- white settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- white truffle — an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.
- white vitriol — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- whithersoever — Wherever.
- whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- wife batterer — a man who hits his wife
- wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
- will to power — (in the philosophy of Nietzsche) the self-assertive creative drive in all individuals, regarded as the supreme quality of the superman.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
- wire-transfer — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- with interest — plus money owed
- with pleasure — gladly, willingly
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- work overtime — work extra hours
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
- writ of error — a writ issued by an appellate court to the court of record where a case was tried, requiring that the record of the trial be sent to the appellate court for examination of alleged errors.
- write-protect — to protect (a recordable disk) from accidental erasure or change; to mark (a file or disk) so that its contents cannot be modified or deleted.
- writing paper — paper on which to write.