14-letter words containing s, w, i, a, r
- wear-resistant — resistant to damage from normal wear or usage
- wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- westernisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernization.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
- windmill grass — finger grass.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- wristlet watch — a watch that is attached to a band or bracelet
- writer's cramp — spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.