14-letter words containing m, o, r, w
- sweet wormwood — a widely distributed plant, Artemisia annua, having scented leaves and loose, nodding clusters of yellow flowers.
- take away from — detract
- the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
- transom window — a window divided by a transom.
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
- two-time loser — a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
- two-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.
- walk away from — to outdistance easily; defeat handily
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- 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 moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
- well-confirmed — made certain as to truth, accuracy, validity, availability, etc.: confirmed reports of new fighting at the front; confirmed reservations on the three o'clock flight to Denver.
- well-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- western omelet — an omelet prepared with diced green peppers, onions, and ham.
- 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.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- whoremongering — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
- woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
- women's centre — a centre providing medical or social services for women
- women's libber — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
- women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
- women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
- word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
- work placement — temporary job, internship
- working memory — temporary or short-term recall
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
- world premiere — the first public performance of a play, motion picture, musical work, etc.
- worldly wisdom — experience of the world that makes you difficult to shock or deceive
- worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
- worms eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- yellow emperor — the legendary first emperor of China.
- yom kippur war — a war that began on Yom Kippur in 1973 with the attack of Israel by Egypt, Syria, and Iraq: Israel recovered most of its initial losses.
- you're welcome — You say 'You're welcome' to someone who has thanked you for something in order to acknowledge their thanks in a polite way.