14-letter words containing w, a, n, t, o, i
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
- tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
- to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
- to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
- transom window — a window divided by a transom.
- tripolitan war — a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
- waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
- weatherization — (US) The process of weatherizing.
- well-appointed — attractively equipped, arranged, or furnished, especially for comfort or convenience: a well-appointed room.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- westernisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernization.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
- willow pattern — a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
- wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
- wind indicator — a large weather vane used at airports to indicate wind direction.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- winter aconite — a small Old World plant, Eranthis hyemalis, of the buttercup family, often cultivated for its bright-yellow flowers, which appear very early in the spring.
- with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.