14-letter words containing w, e, a
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
- flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
- garden warbler — any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- get in the way — be an obstacle
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- go on the swag — to become a tramp
- go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
- great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- greater weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
- gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development