The phrase "a word for everything" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that there is a specific term or expression for every possible concept or situation.
Example: "In the world of language, it often feels like there is a word for everything, capturing the nuances of human experience."
Alternatives: "a term for every situation" or "a name for everything".
The Italians have a word for everything in soccer.
Maurer has coined a word for everything, and then some.
The French, we have a word for everything and put more words in our mouths.
"Now a child sees there's a word for everything, and everything has a name or word".
Later — when things had happened that they never could have imagined — she wrote him a letter that said, "When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?" Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl whose father was shrewd enough to scrounge together all the zlotys he had to send his daughter on a boat to America.
Saramago is a ragger and a wrangler as much as a writer, and there are several middling to good gags, as when Eve complains about her lot to the angel: "we sleep in a hole, we eat grass, just as the lord promised, and we have diarrhoea, What's diarrhoea, asked the angel, Another word for it is the runs, the vocabulary the lord taught us has a word for everything".
PARIS — As there is a German word for everything, so there is a German word for one of fashion's first world problems: "schwellenangst," the fear of crossing the threshold — into an intimidating museum, theater or, relevant to the example below, a shop.
After four months in Spain, Madeline has at least realized what's going on: Spanish people have a different word for everything, and we're all playing a big game trying to learn their words for our things.
He has a separate word for everything".
"There is a right word for everything," he told us.
The danger of stereotyping also hovers over Zack, the classic monosyllabic teenage boy with a snarky word for everything.
