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14-letter words containing w, d, r, u

  • picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • puncture wound — injury: perforation
  • put down roots — settle: in a place
  • put into words — express in language
  • quarter window — (on a car) a small triangular side window with hinges that can be opened for extra ventilation
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • screw extruder — A screw extruder is a type of mixer which moves the components through a cylinder using a screw which turns.
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • 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.
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
  • ward cunnigham — (person)   The creator of the first wiki.
  • wardour street — a street in Soho where many film companies have their London offices: formerly noted for shops selling antiques and mock antiques
  • wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • well and truly — If you say that something is well and truly finished, gone, or done, you are emphasizing that it is completely finished or gone, or thoroughly done.
  • well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
  • well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • wild liquorice — a North American plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, that is related to true liquorice and has similar properties
  • winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
  • word of honour — a promise; oath
  • world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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