16-letter words containing m, a, e, w
- muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
- new commonwealth — a term used esp in the latter part of the 20th century in Britain to describe countries in the British Commonwealth that became independent after World War II
- new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
- new smyrna beach — a town in NE Florida.
- newry and mourne — a district of SE Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 89 644 (2003 est). Area: 909 sq km (351 sq miles)
- okefenokee swamp — a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia.
- pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
- portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- potato tuberworm — the larva of the potato moth.
- powerpc platform — (architecture, standard) (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
- rear-view mirror — a mirror mounted on the side, windshield, or instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle to provide the driver with a view of the area behind the vehicle.
- rotary lawnmower — a lawn mower with a single blade attached in the middle that rotates as the mower is moved
- show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
- slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
- swash plate pump — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis
- swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
- swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
- swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
- systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
- the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
- the little woman — one's wife
- to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
- traded endowment — A traded endowment is a traditional with-profits endowment policy that has been sold to a new owner part way through its term.
- twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- wages settlement — an agreement over wages following negotiations between workers and employers
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
- waste management — disposal and treatment of waste
- waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- welfare payments — government benefits
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- wheel animalcule — a rotifer.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- willem-alexander — full name Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand. born 1967, king of the Netherlands from 2013
- william mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- windowless monad — (in the philosophy of Leibniz) a monad having no direct causal or perceptual relation with any other monad.
- wipe off the map — to put out of existence
- wireless message — a radio message
- woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
- women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote
- world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
- write home about — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.