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14-letter words containing n, o, w, t

  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down the hatch — drinks toast
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • drop-down list — pull-down list
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • in other words — that is to say
  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
  • kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
  • know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
  • know the score — understand the situation
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