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