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14-letter words containing s, w, e

  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
  • 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
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • freshers' week — a week at the beginning of a university year, usually with a programme of events intended to welcome new first-year students
  • 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.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • 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
  • hell on wheels — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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