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14-letter words containing s, w, i

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • 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 a small way — slightly, somewhat
  • 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.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
  • microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.
  • microsoft word — (text, tool, product)   A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
  • middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
  • midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • 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 journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • 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
  • 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
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
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