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14-letter words containing r, w, d

  • road allowance — land reserved by the government to be used for public roads
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • sadler's wells — a theatre in London. It was renovated in 1931 by Lilian Bayliss and became the home of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company and the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet)
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • screw extruder — A screw extruder is a type of mixer which moves the components through a cylinder using a screw which turns.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • series winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in series
  • serrated wrack — the seaweed Fucus serratus
  • seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
  • shredded wheat — a breakfast cereal made by shredding cooked, dried whole wheat and baking or toasting it in biscuit- or spoon-size pieces.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • standing water — still water that has stagnated
  • stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • strong forward — power forward
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • sweet wormwood — a widely distributed plant, Artemisia annua, having scented leaves and loose, nodding clusters of yellow flowers.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • sweet-tempered — having a gentle and equable disposition; pleasant.
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
  • transom window — a window divided by a transom.
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
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