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14-letter words containing t, w

  • a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  • a thing or two — If you say that a person knows a thing or two about something or could teach someone a thing or two about it, you mean that they know a lot about it or are good at it.
  • acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
  • aerial tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • air stewardess — a stewardess on an airliner
  • aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
  • american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
  • analogue watch — a watch in which the hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds are indicated by hands on a dial
  • ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
  • and/or whatnot — People sometimes say 'and whatnot' or 'or whatnot' after mentioning one or more things, to refer in a vague way to other things which are similar.
  • andrew project — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
  • andrew toolkit — (tool)   (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
  • apparent power — The apparent power of an alternating current circuit is the product of the RMS values of the voltage and the current, expressed as volt-amperes.
  • arrest warrant — a legal document giving permission to arrest someone
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • at (the) worst — You use at worst or at the worst to indicate that you are mentioning the worst thing that might happen in a situation.
  • at one's elbow — within easy reach
  • at one's worst — When someone is at their worst, they are as unpleasant, bad, or unsuccessful as it is possible for them to be.
  • atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • aztec two-step — Montezuma's revenge
  • balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
  • ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
  • bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
  • baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
  • basotho-qwaqwa — (formerly) a Bantustan in South Africa, in the Orange Free State; the only Bantustan without exclaves: abolished in 1993
  • battered woman — See under battered woman syndrome.
  • battered-women — the array of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by women (battered women or battered wives) who have been beaten repeatedly or otherwise abused by their partners or spouses.
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
  • be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
  • be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
  • below the belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • below-the-belt — Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
  • below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
  • between whiles — now and then; at intervals
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • boatswain bird — tropic bird.
  • bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
  • borrow trouble — to worry about anything needlessly or before one has sufficient cause
  • borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation

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