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13-letter words containing w, h, i, t, e, a

  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • snap the whip — crack the whip (def 2).
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • 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)
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
  • weather strip — a thin strip of compressible material, such as spring metal, felt, etc, that is fitted between the frame of a door or window and the opening part to exclude wind and rain
  • weather-strip — to apply weather stripping to (something).
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • weatherstrips — Plural form of weatherstrip.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
  • white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • 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 feather — a symbol of cowardice.
  • white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
  • white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • 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 russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
  • wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • 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.
  • with pleasure — gladly, willingly
  • 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.
  • withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
  • without cease — without stopping; incessantly
  • without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
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