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14-letter words containing w, a, t

  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • 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.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • how about that — delight, surprise
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
  • lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
  • long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • low-water mark — the lowest point reached by a low tide.
  • 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
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
  • man about town — a socially active, sophisticated man who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.; playboy; boulevardier.
  • man-about-town — a socially active, sophisticated man who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.; playboy; boulevardier.
  • mariotte's law — Boyle's law.
  • martello tower — a circular, towerlike fort with guns on the top.
  • 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
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