13-letter words containing w, e, s, l, a
- show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
- 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.
- 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.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
- 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.
- speed walking — power walking.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
- sweat bullets — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
- sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
- sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- the last word — final retort
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wall streeter — a person who is employed on Wall Street or in the financial district.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
- 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.
- water-soluble — capable of dissolving in water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterlessness — Absence of water.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- welfare state — a state in which the welfare of the people in such matters as social security, health and education, housing, and working conditions is the responsibility of the government.
- well attested — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- well-adjusted — arranged or fitted properly: Properly adjusted shelving will accommodate books of various heights.
- well-answered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- well-assorted — properly matched and suited to one another