14-letter words containing r, w
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- like clockwork — the mechanism of a clock.
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- long-eared owl — a mottled-gray owl, Asio otus, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a long tuft on each side of the head.
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- lost for words — If someone is lost for words, they cannot think of anything to say, especially because they are very surprised by something.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lower the boom — Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- man of sorrows — a person alluded to by Isaiah (Isa. 53:3) and interpreted as being the Messiah
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- marine railway — a railway having a rolling cradle for hauling ships out of water onto land and returning them.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- martello tower — a circular, towerlike fort with guns on the top.
- master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
- matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- measure swords — to duel with swords
- measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- 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.
- meteoric water — ground water that has recently originated from the atmosphere
- microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.
- microsoft word — (text, tool, product) A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
- microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.
- middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
- migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
- milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
- miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
- mirror writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
- mirror-writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.