14-letter words containing a, l, w, o
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- walk away from — to outdistance easily; defeat handily
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
- waste disposal — A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste.
- watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
- welfare worker — sb who does social or community work
- well motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- well-appointed — attractively equipped, arranged, or furnished, especially for comfort or convenience: a well-appointed room.
- well-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-modulated — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- well-motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- whirlpool bath — a bath in which the body is immersed in swirling water as therapy or for relaxation.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- william bowman — William Scott ("Scotty") born 1933, Canadian hockey coach.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- willow pattern — a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
- willow warbler — any of several usually grayish-green leaf warblers, especially Phylloscopus trochilus, of Europe.
- window cleaner — someone that cleans windows for a living
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- wollaston lake — a lake in NE Saskatchewan, in central Canada. About 796 sq. mi. (2062 sq. km).
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- woolly mammoth — a large extinct elephant
- work placement — temporary job, internship
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
- world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
- yellow wagtail — Motacilla flava; a small passerine
- yellow warbler — a small American warbler, Dendroica petechia, the male of which has yellow plumage streaked with brown on the underparts.
- yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.