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13-letter words containing w, e, l, a, t, i

  • silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
  • water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
  • water lobelia — Lobelia dortmanna
  • water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
  • water quality — Water quality is the degree to which water is clean, and whether it is suitable for drinking, for making plants grow, or for fish to live in, etc.
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • well-situated — located; placed.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
  • 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 slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • 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.
  • winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
  • winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
  • winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
  • with pleasure — gladly, willingly
  • withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • writing table — a table designed or used for writing at
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