13-letter words containing w, e, r
- bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
- braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break it down — stop it
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
- british white — a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
- caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
- charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
- charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
- chester white — a variety of large, white hog
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
- chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
- chrome yellow — any yellow pigment consisting of lead chromate mixed with lead sulphate
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes