14-letter words containing w, e, n, i, s
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- water scorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
- wear-resistant — resistant to damage from normal wear or usage
- wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- western empire — the western portion of the Roman Empire after its division, a.d. 395, which became extinct a.d. 476.
- western writer — a person who writes westerns
- westernisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernization.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- when it's done — (jargon) A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. It also sounds slightly better than "We don't know".
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wilson's snipe — a North American common snipe, Gallinago (Capella) gallinago delicata.
- wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
- window dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
- winter springs — a town in central Florida.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.
- with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- witness corner — a point, marked by a monument, situated at a known distance from and bearing relative to a corner that is used as a reference point but on which it is impossible to place a monument. Compare corner (def 10a).
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- 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 rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
- word blindness — alexia.
- working papers — documents permitting employment
- worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.