13-letter words containing w, e, r, c, o
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
- twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- 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.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris