14-letter words containing l, o, w, a, t
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
- 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
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- martello tower — a circular, towerlike fort with guns on the top.
- maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
- mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
- neural network — artificial neural network
- new carrollton — a city in S central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- novell netware — (operating system, networking) Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- postnatal ward — a ward in a hospital where women and their babies are provided with medical care immediately after the birth of the baby
- potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
- potential well — a localized region in a field of force in which the potential has a deep minimum
- prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
- quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
- railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
- rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
- sturgeon's law — "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth.
- swallow-tailed — having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- 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 unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- to blow a kiss — If you blow someone a kiss or blow a kiss, you touch the palm of your hand lightly with your lips, and then blow across your hand towards the person, in order to show them your affection.
- to sweat blood — If you say that someone sweats blood trying to do something, you are emphasizing that they try very hard to do it.
- to wax lyrical — If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
- 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.
- tripolitan war — a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.
- vegetable wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)