13-letter words containing w, h, e, l, a
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
- pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
- 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.
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- 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.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
- tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- the last word — final retort
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wah-wah pedal — a foot pedal attached to an electronic musical instrument, used to create a sound that simulates the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered
- walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
- what the hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
- whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.