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14-letter words containing w, a, l, s

  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • in a small way — slightly, somewhat
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lose one's way — If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • lower silurian — Ordovician
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
  • meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
  • new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • one-liner wars — (games, programming)   A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noise). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados. (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • pascal's wager — the argument put forth by Blaise Pascal that it is in one's best interest to believe in the existence of God, as it is a rational assumption and does no harm, and the possibility of eternal punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise.
  • peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • postnatal ward — a ward in a hospital where women and their babies are provided with medical care immediately after the birth of the baby
  • propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
  • red sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
  • roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
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