16-letter words containing w, e, m
- systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
- the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
- the little woman — one's wife
- to come to blows — If two people or groups come to blows, they start fighting.
- to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
- tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
- topless swimsuit — swimsuit which has no covering for the breasts
- traded endowment — A traded endowment is a traditional with-profits endowment policy that has been sold to a new owner part way through its term.
- twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
- two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- wages settlement — an agreement over wages following negotiations between workers and employers
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
- waste management — disposal and treatment of waste
- waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
- weighing machine — large measuring scales
- welfare payments — government benefits
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- well-recommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- wheel animalcule — a rotifer.
- when it comes to — with regard to
- white settlement — a town in N Texas.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- willem-alexander — full name Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand. born 1967, king of the Netherlands from 2013
- william mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- wimp environment — WIMP
- wind instruments — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- windowless monad — (in the philosophy of Leibniz) a monad having no direct causal or perceptual relation with any other monad.
- wipe off the map — to put out of existence
- wireless message — a radio message
- wish fulfillment — gratification of desires.
- without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
- woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
- women's movement — 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 suffrage — right of adult females to vote
- world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
- write home about — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- yellow pimpernel — Lysimachia nemorum