14-letter words containing s, w, a
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- daniel webster — Daniel, 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.
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- 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
- drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
- 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
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- 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
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.