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14-letter words containing w, a, r, i, g

  • 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.
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
  • rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
  • retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
  • roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
  • sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
  • sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
  • standing water — still water that has stagnated
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • straight arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
  • 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.
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • ward cunnigham — (person)   The creator of the first wiki.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
  • watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
  • wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • weight watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weight-watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
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