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14-letter words containing e, a, r, w

  • test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
  • two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • vesper sparrow — a common finch, Pooecetes gramineus, of fields and pastures in North America, noted for its evening song.
  • wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
  • wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • war department — the department of the federal government that, from 1789 until 1947, was responsible for defense and the military establishment: in 1947 it became the Department of the Army, which became part of the Department of Defense when it was established in 1949.
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • wardour street — a street in Soho where many film companies have their London offices: formerly noted for shops selling antiques and mock antiques
  • wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
  • 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.
  • warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • waste material — a useless by-product of an industrial process
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • watcom vx*rexx — (programming, tool)   A visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with graphical user interfaces. It includes a project management facility, visual designer and an interactive source level debugger. Version 2.1 introduced the VX*REXX Client/Server Edition for client/server GUI application development on OS/2 by incorporating database objects. Using IBM's DRDA support on OS/2, users can access DB2 for MVS, DB2/400 for AS/400, and DB2/VSE and VM (SQL/DS) for VM and VSE. Also supported are Watcom SQL and ODBC-enabled databases. Since the VX*REXX visual development environment is based on IBM's object-oriented SOM technology, VX*REXX applications are open and extensible through the addition of new SOM objects.
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • water crowfoot — an aquatic buttercup; Ranunculus aquatilis
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • water dropwort — any of several umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Oenanthe, with umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
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