14-letter words containing w, a, b, r
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
- homeward bound — going home
- hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- know backwards — to understand completely
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
- rainbow cactus — an erect stiff cactus, Echinocereus pectinatus rigidissimus, of Arizona and Mexico, having a cylindrical body, numerous interlocking spines, and pink flowers.
- rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
- rainbow runner — a streamlined, cigar-shaped swift jack, Elagatis bipinnulata, of warm seas, having a blue back, light-colored abdomen, and blue-bordered yellow stripes on its sides: a food and game fish.
- rainbow series — (publication) Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover colour. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see Orange Book, crayola books); the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set (see Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book, White Book). Which books are meant by ""the" rainbow series" unqualified is thus dependent on one's local technical culture.
- rainbow wrasse — a brightly coloured Mediterranean fish ( Coris julis) of the Labridae family
- rainbow-collar — being or of an employee who combines work or experience on the assembly line with more technical or administrative duties; having both blue-collar and white-collar duties or experience.
- raise eyebrows — cause surprise
- rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
- tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
- 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.
- warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warrantability — The quality of being warrantable.
- weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
- weather-beaten — bearing evidences of wear or damage as a result of exposure to the weather.
- weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
- weatherboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherboard.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- whirlpool bath — a bath in which the body is immersed in swirling water as therapy or for relaxation.
- willow warbler — any of several usually grayish-green leaf warblers, especially Phylloscopus trochilus, of Europe.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- wrecker's ball — a heavy metal ball swung on a cable from a crane and used in demolition work.
- yellow warbler — a small American warbler, Dendroica petechia, the male of which has yellow plumage streaked with brown on the underparts.