14-letter words containing s, e, w, d
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- 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
- hold one's own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- household word — a familiar name, phrase, saying, etc.; byword: The advertising campaign is designed to make this new product a household word.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- in other words — that is to say
- 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.
- 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).
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lowside window — (in medieval English churches) a window set low in the outside wall, permitting the interior to be seen from the outside.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- measure swords — to duel with swords
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
- mum's the word — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
- newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
- powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
- power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- red sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
- residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
- rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
- 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 panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
- 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.
- self-knowledge — knowledge or understanding of oneself, one's character, abilities, motives, etc.