14-letter words containing s, w, e, i
- dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- expert witness — In a court case, an expert witness is someone such as a doctor or other professional who testifies about and gives opinions on subjects and issues that have been raised in the particular court case.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- 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.
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- 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.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- 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
- home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
- 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.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- i'll/we'll see — People say 'I'll see' or 'We'll see' to indicate that they do not intend to make a decision immediately, and will decide later.
- in one's power — able or allowed (to)
- in other words — that is to say
- in-betweenness — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- 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.
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- 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.
- 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.
- linsey-woolsey — a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
- 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).
- 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
- lowside window — (in medieval English churches) a window set low in the outside wall, permitting the interior to be seen from the outside.
- mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
- master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
- 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 salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.