14-letter words containing w, a, r, e
- master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
- matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- measure swords — to duel with swords
- measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- meteoric water — ground water that has recently originated from the atmosphere
- microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.
- migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
- milk and water — If you think that someone's suggestions or ideas are weak or sentimental, you can say that they are milk and water.
- milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
- miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
- mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
- mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- 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)
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- neural network — artificial neural network
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new carrollton — a city in S central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- 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 jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- new model army — the army established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English parliamentarians, which exercised considerable political power under Cromwell
- new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- newspaperwoman — a woman employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- newspaperwomen — Plural form of newspaperwoman.
- no matter what — whatever
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- novell netware — (operating system, networking) Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
- nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
- nuclear winter — the general devastation of life, along with worldwide darkness and extreme cold, that some scientists believe would result from a global dust cloud screening out sunlight following large-scale nuclear detonations.
- old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
- on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
- 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.