13-letter words containing w, i, s, e, c
- seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
- switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
- 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
- swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
- swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
- 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.
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
- weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
- west atlantic — a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- wild allspice — spicebush (sense 1)
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world