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

  • wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • wine-bottling — the process of transferring wine from a large container to individual bottles
  • winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
  • winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
  • winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
  • winter garden — an outdoor garden maintained during the winter with hardy plants.
  • 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.
  • winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
  • winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
  • wire transfer — bank-to-bank money transfer
  • wire-transfer — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
  • with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • with interest — plus money owed
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
  • within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • witness stand — the place occupied by a person giving testimony in a court.
  • witwatersrand — a rocky ridge in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, near Johannesburg.
  • wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
  • woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
  • won't be long — If you say that someone won't be long, you mean that you think they will arrive or be back soon. If you say that it won't be long before something happens, you mean that you think it will happen soon.
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wooden tongue — actinobacillosis.
  • wool merchant — a dealer in wool
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
  • working title — name or heading of sth while in progress
  • worthlessness — The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
  • writing paper — paper on which to write.
  • writing table — a table designed or used for writing at
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