14-letter words containing w, a, n, s
- a can of worms — If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone.
- a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
- absorbing well — a well for draining off surface water and conducting it to absorbent earth underground.
- 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.
- ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
- andrew jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
- andrew johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- answerableness — The state or quality of being answerable.
- arrest warrant — a legal document giving permission to arrest someone
- as good as new — If you say that something or someone is as good as new, you mean that they are in a very good condition or state, especially after they have been damaged or ill.
- assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
- aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
- 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.
- 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.
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- 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.
- 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
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- break the news — announce sth
- brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
- brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
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