13-letter words containing w, r, k
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
- side whiskers — sideburns: hair at side of man's face
- silkworm moth — any of several moths of the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae, the larvae of which are silkworms.
- skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
- sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
- stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
- street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
- taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- 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 break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- w.k. roentgen — Wilhelm Konrad [wil-helm kon-rad;; German vil-helm kawn-raht] /ˈwɪl hɛlm ˈkɒn ræd;; German ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈkɔn rɑt/ (Show IPA), 1845–1923, German physicist: discoverer of x-rays 1895; Nobel prize 1901.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- wicketkeepers — Plural form of wicketkeeper.
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- winkle-picker — a shoe or boot with a narrow, sharply pointed toe
- winter's bark — an evergreen tree, Drimys winteri, ranging from Mexico to Cape Horn, having aromatic leaves and cream-colored, jasmine-scented flowers.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wonder-worker — a worker or performer of wonders or marvels.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- work overtime — work extra hours
- work stoppage — the collective stoppage of work by employees in a business or an industry to protest working conditions.
- work-furlough — work-release.
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.
- working asset — invested capital that is comparatively liquid.
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.