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16-letter words containing t, w, e

  • strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • swash plate pump — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • sweet pepperbush — a shrub, Clethra alnifolia, of the eastern and southern coastal U.S., having numerous erect clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • swinging sixties — the 1960s as a decade when social and sexual freedom increased
  • swiss stone pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra,, found especially in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the easy way out — least demanding solution
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the wheel blacks — the international wheelchair rugby football team of New Zealand
  • the worried well — people who are healthy but are concerned about becoming ill and so take medication or see a medical practitioner when they don't need to
  • the written word — writing rather than speaking
  • the yellow press — (formerly) popular newspapers publishing sensational stories
  • theatre workshop — a theatre company that is noted for the unconventional theatrical performances it puts on, especially with reference to a company based in the East End of London from 1953 to 1973 that was founded in 1945 by Joan Littlewood
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • throw oneself on — to rely entirely upon
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to come to blows — If two people or groups come to blows, they start fighting.
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
  • to wine and dine — If you wine and dine, or if someone wines and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money.
  • tokugawa iyeyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • topless swimsuit — swimsuit which has no covering for the breasts
  • torricelli's law — the law that states that the speed of flow of a liquid from an orifice is equal to the speed that it would attain if falling freely a distance equal to the height of the free surface of the liquid above the orifice.
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • traded endowment — A traded endowment is a traditional with-profits endowment policy that has been sold to a new owner part way through its term.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • twelvepenny nail — a nail that is 3 1/4 inches (8.25 cm) long.
  • twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
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