14-letter words containing a, r, o, w
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- 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.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
- grow away from — lose attachment
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hammer thrower — a contestant in a hammer throw
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
- harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- homeward bound — going home
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
- hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
- horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
- indian warrior — a lousewort, Pedicularis densiflora, of the western U.S., having densely clustered red flowers.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- inward-looking — person
- isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
- jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
- know backwards — to understand completely
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- long-eared owl — a mottled-gray owl, Asio otus, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a long tuft on each side of the head.
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.