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

  • west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
  • west frisians — See under Frisian Islands.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
  • west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
  • west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • west pakistan — a former province of British Pakistan, separated from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by N India: declared independence as Republic of Pakistan 1956.
  • west paterson — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • west st. paul — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
  • west virginia — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
  • western dvina — a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)
  • western ghats — a mountain range in W peninsular India, parallel to the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Highest peak: Anai Mudi, 2695 m (8841 ft)
  • western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
  • western isles — an island authority in W Scotland, consisting of the Outer Hebrides; created in 1975. Administrative centre: Stornoway. Pop: 26 100 (2003 est). Area: 2900 sq km (1120 sq miles)
  • western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
  • western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
  • western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
  • western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
  • 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.
  • where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
  • whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
  • whithersoever — Wherever.
  • who-does-what — (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by different trade unions
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
  • whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
  • wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
  • wife's equity — a wife's right to have provision made for her and her children out of her estate, without the aid of a court of equity, if her husband cannot obtain the funds
  • wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
  • winter savory — See under savory2 .
  • winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
  • winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
  • winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
  • winter's tale — a drama (1610–11?) by Shakespeare.
  • winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
  • wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
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