13-letter words containing w
- blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
- blow sky-high — to destroy completely
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- blue whistler — blue norther.
- boogie-woogie — a style of piano jazz using a dotted bass pattern, usually with eight notes in a bar and the harmonies of the 12-bar blues
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bottled water — water sold in bottles
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
- bow and arrow — a weapon consisting of a bow together with an arrow that may be fired from it
- bow collector — a sliding current collector, consisting of a bow-shaped strip mounted on a hinged framework, used on trains, etc, to collect current from an overhead-wire
- bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
- bowling green — A bowling green is an area of very smooth, short grass on which the game of bowls or lawn bowling is played.
- bowling match — a game of bowls
- bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
- bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
- braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
- braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
- brazilian wax — the process of removing all or almost all pubic and other hair in the pelvic area by applying hot wax.
- bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break it down — stop it
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
- bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
- british white — a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
- by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
- cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor