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14-letter words containing w, e, i, l

  • railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
  • railway worker — railroad employee
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • scenic railway — a railroad that carries its passengers on a brief tour of an amusement park, resort, etc.
  • schoolies week — (in Australia) a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams
  • self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • silent witness — a person who observes but makes no comment on or has no involvement in an action
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • snow blindness — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
  • social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
  • sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
  • spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
  • street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
  • swallow-tailed — having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
  • swamp milkweed — a coarse milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, growing in swampy places from eastern North America to Colorado, having ball-like clusters of rose-purple flowers.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • time will tell — sth will be revealed
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • two-time loser — a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
  • uniflow engine — a double-acting steam engine exhausting from the middle of each cylinder at each stroke so that the motion of the steam from admission to exhaust is continuous in one direction.
  • viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
  • vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
  • wait in a line — When people wait in a line, they stand in a line waiting for something.
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