14-letter words containing w, a, r, s
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- 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.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- grassman's law — an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek.
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
- hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
- harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
- hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
- horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
- hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
- indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- 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.
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- know backwards — to understand completely
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- 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
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- man of sorrows — a person alluded to by Isaiah (Isa. 53:3) and interpreted as being the Messiah
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.