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14-letter words containing s, w, u

  • sweet chestnut — tree: edible nuts
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • the snow queen — a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1845; a young boy, Kay, falls under a troll's spell and his heart is turned to ice. He is carried off by the Snow Queen, who holds him captive until he is rescued by his devoted friend, Gerda
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • thought shower — brainstorm
  • to follow suit — If people follow suit, they do the same thing that someone else has just done.
  • tongue twister — a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds, as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”.
  • tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turn the screw — to increase the pressure
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • wardour street — a street in Soho where many film companies have their London offices: formerly noted for shops selling antiques and mock antiques
  • warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • water measurer — a slender heteropterous bug, Hydrometra stagnorum, that has a greatly elongated head and is found on still or sluggish water where it preys on water fleas, mosquito larvae, etc
  • water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
  • watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • well-justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
  • well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • well-scheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
  • well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
  • weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
  • wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
  • west-southwest — a point on the compass midway between west and southwest.
  • western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
  • western europe — countries in the west of Europe
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
  • whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
  • worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
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