14-letter words containing o, w, s
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- 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.
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- dover's powder — a powder containing ipecac and opium, used as an anodyne, diaphoretic, and antispasmodic.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- 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.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- 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.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- 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.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.