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14-letter words containing i, n, w

  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • dwelling place — a dwelling.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
  • exit interview — an interview held with an employee who is leaving an organization in order to learn the employee's opinion of his or her time spent at the organization, reasons for departure, etc
  • expert witness — In a court case, an expert witness is someone such as a doctor or other professional who testifies about and gives opinions on subjects and issues that have been raised in the particular court case.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • 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.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flying gangway — monkey bridge (def 2).
  • following wind — a wind that is moving in the same direction as the course of a vessel etc
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • 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.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • 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.
  • 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 wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
  • 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.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
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