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14-letter words containing w, a, t, l, e

  • potential well — a localized region in a field of force in which the potential has a deep minimum
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
  • railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
  • rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
  • retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • slatwall panel — A slatwall panel is a slatted surface which can be fixed to the wall from which shelves or hooks can be hung at varying heights to display merchandise.
  • social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
  • spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
  • steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
  • sturgeon's law — "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth.
  • swallow-tailed — having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • to sweat blood — If you say that someone sweats blood trying to do something, you are emphasizing that they try very hard to do it.
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
  • unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
  • vegetable wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
  • vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
  • wait in a line — When people wait in a line, they stand in a line waiting for something.
  • walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
  • walking ticket — walking papers.
  • wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • waste disposal — A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste.
  • waste material — a useless by-product of an industrial process
  • water plantain — any of several marsh plants of the genus Alisma, esp A. plantago-aquatica, of N temperate regions and Australia, having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed leaves: family Alismataceae
  • water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
  • watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
  • watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
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