14-letter words containing a, l, e, w
- commercial law — business law
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
- digital wallet — an electronic device, website, software system, or database that facilitates commercial transactions by storing a consumer's credit card, shipping address, and other payment data.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- draw-out table — draw table.
- draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
- employment law — rules governing working practices
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.