13-letter words containing w, e, t, s
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- get somewhere — to make progress
- get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- inbetweenness — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- interviewee's — a person who is interviewed.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- keep sb sweet — If you keep someone sweet, you do something to please them in order to prevent them from becoming annoyed or dissatisfied.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
- might as well — have no reason not to
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- network storm — broadcast storm
- new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.