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14-letter words containing s, w, a

  • 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.
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • 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
  • grassman's law — an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek.
  • 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.
  • hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
  • 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.
  • hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
  • 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
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • 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.
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
  • in a small way — slightly, somewhat
  • 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.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • know backwards — to understand completely
  • 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).
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lose one's way — If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
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