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14-letter words containing w, e, m

  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • whoremongering — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
  • wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
  • winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
  • wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
  • winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
  • witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • women's centre — a centre providing medical or social services for women
  • women's libber — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
  • women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • work placement — temporary job, internship
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • world premiere — the first public performance of a play, motion picture, musical work, etc.
  • worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
  • worms eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
  • writer's cramp — spasmodic, painful contractions of the muscles of the thumb, forefinger, and forearm during writing.
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
  • yellow emperor — the legendary first emperor of China.
  • yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
  • you're welcome — You say 'You're welcome' to someone who has thanked you for something in order to acknowledge their thanks in a polite way.
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