14-letter words containing w, e, a
- well-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-modulated — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- well-motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- well-practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- well-qualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
- well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- well-rehearsed — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
- well-satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- well-travelled — traveled.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- west hempstead — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- west lafayette — a city in central Indiana: suburb of Lafayette.
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- western saddle — a heavy saddle having a deep seat, high cantle and pommel, pommel horn, wide leather flaps for protecting the rider's legs, and little padding.
- western sahara — a region in NW Africa on the Atlantic coast, bounded by Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania: a former Spanish province comprising Río de Oro and Saguia el Hamra 1884–1976; divided between Morocco and Mauritania 1976; claimed entirely by Morocco 1979, but still under dispute. About 102,700 sq. mi. (266,000 sq. km).
- western thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- westernisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernization.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
- what manner of — You use what manner of to suggest that the person or thing you are about to mention is of an unusual or unknown kind.
- wheel and axle — a simple machine consisting, in its typical form, of a cylindrical drum to which a wheel concentric with the drum is firmly fastened: ropes are so applied that as one unwinds from the wheel, another rope is wound on to the drum.
- wheel and deal — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- wheeler-dealer — a person who wheels and deals.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
- white sea bass — a large weakfish, Atractoscion nobilis, occurring along the Pacific coast of North America and popular as a sport and food fish.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
- whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
- wide-awake hat — a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.