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14-letter words containing s, e, w, a

  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • daniel websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • 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.
  • descartes' law — Snell's law.
  • dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • 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.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • 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
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • 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.
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • 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
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
  • guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
  • harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
  • hawaiian goose — nene.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
  • hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
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