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14-letter words containing s, w, e

  • new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
  • 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 forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
  • new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
  • new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
  • new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
  • new york state — New York (def 1).
  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • newspaperwoman — a woman employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • newspaperwomen — Plural form of newspaperwoman.
  • newsworthiness — The characteristic of being newsworthy.
  • newton's rings — a series of bright and dark rings that appear when a convex lens comes into contact with a glass plate, and which are caused by light interference
  • north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northwesterner — a native or inhabitant of the northwest.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
  • oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
  • one fell swoop — a single hasty action or occurrence
  • one's twenties — the ages between 20–29
  • one-horse town — a small or obscure town
  • one-liner wars — (games, programming)   A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noise). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados. (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota.
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • one-woman show — a show or performance performed by one woman
  • over-awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
  • overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • pascal's wager — the argument put forth by Blaise Pascal that it is in one's best interest to believe in the existence of God, as it is a rational assumption and does no harm, and the possibility of eternal punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise.
  • peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • petworth house — a mansion in Petworth in Sussex: rebuilt (1688–96) for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset; gardens laid out by Capability Brown; subject of paintings by Turner
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • phillips screw — a screw having a cruciform slot into which a screwdriver with a cruciform point (Phillips screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • 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
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • 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 politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
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