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14-letter words containing o, n, e, w, i

  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • whoremongering — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
  • willow pattern — a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
  • wilson's snipe — a North American common snipe, Gallinago (Capella) gallinago delicata.
  • wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
  • wind deflector — an accessory that can be fitted to parts of a vehicle that are often open when driving, such as windows and sunroofs, to prevent the driver and passengers being buffeted by wind as well as reducing noise and keeping out flying debris
  • wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
  • window cleaner — someone that cleans windows for a living
  • 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
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
  • wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
  • winter aconite — a small Old World plant, Eranthis hyemalis, of the buttercup family, often cultivated for its bright-yellow flowers, which appear very early in the spring.
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • wire recording — a recording made on a wire recorder.
  • with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
  • word blindness — alexia.
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
  • worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
  • 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.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • wring together — to join (two smooth flat surfaces, esp slip gauges) by hand pressure and a slight twisting movement
  • writ of extent — extent (def 4a).
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
  • yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
  • yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
  • yellow yorling — a yellowhammer
  • yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
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