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13-letter words containing w

  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • swimmer's ear — an inflammation of the outer ear occurring in persons who swim for long periods or fail to dry the ears.
  • swimming bath — swimming pool.
  • swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
  • swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • swimming pool — a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.
  • swimming ring — an inflatable ring that you put around your waist to keep you afloat when you are learning to swim, or when you are not a very good swimmer; used esp for children
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • swinging door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
  • 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
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • taffeta weave — plain weave.
  • taiwan strait — strait between Taiwan & Fujian province, China, joining the East & South China seas: c. 100 mi (161 km) wide
  • take a powder — British Dialect. to rush.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
  • taranaki wind — natural gas from Taranaki
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
  • teenie-weenie — tiny; small.
  • teensy-weensy — tiny; small.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • 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 dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • 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 last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • the northwest — any area lying in or towards this direction
  • the southwest — the southwestern part of Britain, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
  • 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
  • the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
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