| SPAN | Unit of length based on the width of the hand (4) |
| CUBIT | Ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, typically about 18 inches (5) |
| GAPE | The width of the widely opened mouth of a vertebrate (4) |
| WEFT | Yarn woven across the width of the fabric (4) |
| PARSEC | A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc. |
| TRANSVERSECOLON | Part of the large intestine that spans the width of the abdominal cavity |
| WEIR | Low dam built across the width of a river that alters the flow (4) |
| BREADTH | The width of the bathtub? - read the instructions! (7) |
| DETER | Talk out of taking aim from the width of the circle (5) |
| CINEMASCOPE | Film-making process in which a motion picture is projected on a screen with the width of the image two and a half times its height (11) |
| BANNERS | Headlines spanning the width of the page |
| PLUTO | Dwarf planet that's only about half the width of the United States |
| INCH | The width of your thumb, if you need a rough approximation |
| ELL | Length based on the forearm (3) |
| HAIRSBREADTH | The width of the lock |
| BENCH | Type of car seat spanning the full width of the car (5) |
| GAUGE | Diameter of a wire; number of knitted stitches in one inch of fabric; or, the width of a row of slates (5) |
| EN | A typographic unit, half the width of an 'em' unit (2) |
| SWATHS | Word for measures of the widths of grassland, reckoned by sweeps of mowers' scythes originally, later bands of cut, mown or scythed grass or corn; or, any broad areas or strips (6) |
| ENDASH | Printing: shorter dash used in punctuation, the width of an n (2,4) |
