16-letter words containing w, e, a
- cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
- chatsworth house — a mansion near Bakewell in Derbyshire: seat of the Dukes of Devonshire; built (1687–1707) in the classical style
- chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
- chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
- chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
- childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
- chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
- chinese windlass — differential windlass
- chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
- cock of the walk — a person who asserts himself or herself in a strutting pompous way
- cold wall effect — the condition or state of having large or multiple windows through which heat escapes and cold air is conducted into a heated room via radiation.
- commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
- comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
- conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
- continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
- cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
- creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
- crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
- cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
- darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
- darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
- dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
- electrical power — electricity
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age