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14-letter words containing w, a, i, t

  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • 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
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
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