14-letter words containing m, e, w, a
- newspaperwomen — Plural form of newspaperwoman.
- no matter what — whatever
- old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
- one-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
- one-woman show — a show or performance performed by one woman
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
- pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
- perimeter wall — a wall that serves as a boundary around something
- permanent wave — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- powder compact — make-up: small case of foundation
- rawhide hammer — a hammer, used to avoid damaging a surface, having a head consisting of a metal tube from each end of which a tight roll of hide protrudes
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
- sewing machine — any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- showplace home — a historic house
- sleepaway camp — a camp providing facilities for teenagers to sleep away from home
- somar software — (company) The distributors of Somar DumpAcl and other utilities for Windows NT. Address: Washington, DC, USA.
- sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
- straw mattress — bed padding filled with straw
- swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
- swanscombe man — a primitive human, Homo sapiens steinheimensis, of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, known from a fossil skull fragment found at Swanscombe, England.
- sweet marjoram — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Origanum, of the mint family, especially O. majorana (sweet marjoram) having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
- take away from — detract
- the whim-whams — an uneasy, nervous feeling; the jitters
- titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
- 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.
- two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- 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.
- warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- waste material — a useless by-product of an industrial process
- 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 measurer — a slender heteropterous bug, Hydrometra stagnorum, that has a greatly elongated head and is found on still or sluggish water where it preys on water fleas, mosquito larvae, etc
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
- ways and means — methods
- welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
- well motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- well-modulated — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- well-motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- west hempstead — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- what manner of — You use what manner of to suggest that the person or thing you are about to mention is of an unusual or unknown kind.
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.