16-letter words containing w, e, n, i, s
- american cowslip — shooting star (def 2).
- ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
- as is one's wont — If someone does a particular thing as is their wont, they do that thing often or regularly.
- atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
- baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
- blow one's lines — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- boatswain's mate — a job classification in the US navy
- boatswain's pipe — a whistle used formerly to give orders on board ship
- brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
- chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
- 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 whispers — a game in which a message is passed on, in a whisper, by each of a number of people, so that the final version of the message is often radically changed from the original
- 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.
- chinese wood oil — tung oil.
- 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.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
- counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- 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
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
- 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
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- do business with — trade or deal with
- dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
- in ones and twos — You can use in ones and twos to indicate that people do things or something happens gradually and in small groups.
- in someone's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
- invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
- knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
- lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
- lewis and harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
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