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14-letter words containing r, w, y

  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
  • marine railway — a railway having a rolling cradle for hauling ships out of water onto land and returning them.
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
  • mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
  • myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
  • new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
  • new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
  • new model army — the army established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English parliamentarians, which exercised considerable political power under Cromwell
  • new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
  • new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
  • new york state — New York (def 1).
  • north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • one-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • property owner — sb who owns a building or land
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
  • railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
  • railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
  • railway worker — railroad employee
  • raise eyebrows — cause surprise
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • scenic railway — a railroad that carries its passengers on a brief tour of an amusement park, resort, etc.
  • schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
  • screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
  • 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.
  • seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
  • south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
  • spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
  • street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
  • take away from — detract
  • teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
  • ten years' war — a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
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