14-letter words containing n, e, w, s, r
- western sahara — a region in NW Africa on the Atlantic coast, bounded by Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania: a former Spanish province comprising Río de Oro and Saguia el Hamra 1884–1976; divided between Morocco and Mauritania 1976; claimed entirely by Morocco 1979, but still under dispute. About 102,700 sq. mi. (266,000 sq. km).
- western thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- western writer — a person who writes westerns
- westernisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernization.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
- window dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
- winter springs — a town in central Florida.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- witness corner — a point, marked by a monument, situated at a known distance from and bearing relative to a corner that is used as a reference point but on which it is impossible to place a monument. Compare corner (def 10a).
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
- 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 blindness — alexia.
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
- worthwhileness — such as to repay one's time, attention, interest, work, trouble, etc.: a worthwhile book.
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling