14-letter words containing w, e, a
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- 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.
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
- two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
- two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
- urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
- 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.
- vesper sparrow — a common finch, Pooecetes gramineus, of fields and pastures in North America, noted for its evening song.
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
- wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
- wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
- wait in a line — When people wait in a line, they stand in a line waiting for something.
- waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
- 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 papers — notice of dismissal
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- wallace's line — an imaginary line that separates the Oriental and Australian zoogeographical regions and passes between Bali and Lombok, west of Celebes, and east of the Philippines.
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- wang ching-wei — 1883–1944, Chinese political leader.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- war department — the department of the federal government that, from 1789 until 1947, was responsible for defense and the military establishment: in 1947 it became the Department of the Army, which became part of the Department of Defense when it was established in 1949.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- 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.
- warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
- warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warning device — alarm or danger signal
- warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- 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
- waste of space — If you describe someone or something as a waste of space, you are indicating that you have a very low opinion of them.
- waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
- watcom vx*rexx — (programming, tool) A visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with graphical user interfaces. It includes a project management facility, visual designer and an interactive source level debugger. Version 2.1 introduced the VX*REXX Client/Server Edition for client/server GUI application development on OS/2 by incorporating database objects. Using IBM's DRDA support on OS/2, users can access DB2 for MVS, DB2/400 for AS/400, and DB2/VSE and VM (SQL/DS) for VM and VSE. Also supported are Watcom SQL and ODBC-enabled databases. Since the VX*REXX visual development environment is based on IBM's object-oriented SOM technology, VX*REXX applications are open and extensible through the addition of new SOM objects.
- water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
- water crowfoot — an aquatic buttercup; Ranunculus aquatilis
- water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
- water dropwort — any of several umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Oenanthe, with umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.