13-letter words containing w, h, i, t, c
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
- weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- whipstitching — Present participle of whipstitch.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white crappie — See under crappie.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- 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-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- 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.
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).