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

  • stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
  • steve wozniak — (person)   Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • 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.
  • stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • 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.
  • sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
  • sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • 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.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
  • teenie-weenie — tiny; small.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • together with — combined with
  • 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.
  • toilet powder — a fine powder sprinkled or rubbed over the skin, especially after bathing.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • twenty-eighth — next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
  • twitter storm — a message on the Twitter website which attracts a significant amount of attention from other Twitter users and may be picked up by mainstream media
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
  • two-part time — duple time.
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
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