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

  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
  • wedding guest — sb invited to a marriage ceremony
  • weigh in with — to introduce or contribute (an idea or opinion) to a discussion, argument, etc.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
  • weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • well-attended — to be present at: to attend a lecture; to attend church.
  • well-invested — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • well-nurtured — to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
  • well-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
  • west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
  • west berliner — a native or inhabitant of the part of Berlin formerly under US, British, and French control
  • west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
  • 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 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 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
  • wetting agent — any admixture to a liquid for increasing its ability to penetrate, or spread over the surface of, a given material, especially cloth, paper, or leather.
  • whether or no — under any circumstances
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
  • white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
  • white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
  • white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
  • wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
  • 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
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