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14-letter words containing w, a, s, i

  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • 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).
  • hawaiian goose — nene.
  • 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
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • 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.
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • in a small way — slightly, somewhat
  • 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
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • 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
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
  • 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 salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • 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.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
  • 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 journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • 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.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pickwickianism — a Pickwickian statement, expression, word, or the like.
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