13-letter words that end in t
- victimologist — the study of crime victims and the psychological effects of being a victim.
- vijaya pandit — Vijaya Lakshmi [vi-jahy-uh lahk-shmee] /vɪˈdʒaɪ ə ˈlɑk ʃmi/ (Show IPA), 1900–90, Indian stateswoman (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru).
- village idiot — someone who is well known in their community for their stupidity and ignorant behaviour
- violoncellist — cellist.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- visual artist — someone involved in the arts of painting, sculpting, photography, etc, as opposed to music, drama, and literature
- visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
- viticulturist — the culture or cultivation of grapevines; grape-growing.
- vocationalist — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
- volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- vortex street — a regular stream of vortices or parallel streams of vortices carried downstream by the flow of a fluid over a body. These are sometimes made visible by vapour condensation as in the vortex trails from the wing tips of an aeroplane
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- watering spot — watering hole
- weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
- wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
- wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
- wedding guest — sb invited to a marriage ceremony
- wetting agent — any admixture to a liquid for increasing its ability to penetrate, or spread over the surface of, a given material, especially cloth, paper, or leather.
- where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white melilot — a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.
- who-does-what — (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by different trade unions
- wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
- wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
- winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- with interest — plus money owed
- with the best — as ably as the most able
- without doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- 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.
- writ of right — English Law. a writ directed to a person who presided over a feudal court, directing him to render justice between his vassals in a dispute as to ownership of land: usually led to a trial in a royal court if feudal ownership was involved.
- write-protect — to protect (a recordable disk) from accidental erasure or change; to mark (a file or disk) so that its contents cannot be modified or deleted.
- yeast extract — food ingredient obtained from yeast
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow locust — black locust.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify