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13-letter words containing w, e, s, k

  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • side whiskers — sideburns: hair at side of man's face
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • steve wozniak — (person)   Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • unknowingness — a state of not knowing
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
  • west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
  • what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
  • wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
  • winnepesaukeeLake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • winnipesaukeeLake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
  • winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
  • work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
  • 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.
  • workingperson — a workingman or workingwoman.
  • works manager — a factory manager
  • yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
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