13-letter words containing w, i, t
- te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
- teenie-weenie — tiny; small.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- 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.)
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- 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.
- to start with — To start with means at the very first stage of an event or process.
- 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.
- town planning — city planning.
- 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
- training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- 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 glow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
- 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.
- 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 of a kind — two similar people or things
- 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
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
- wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.