14-letter words containing w, e, n, i, s
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hawaiian goose — nene.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- in one's power — able or allowed (to)
- in other words — that is to say
- in-betweenness — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- linsey-woolsey — a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lowside window — (in medieval English churches) a window set low in the outside wall, permitting the interior to be seen from the outside.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
- new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
- newsworthiness — The characteristic of being newsworthy.
- newton's rings — a series of bright and dark rings that appear when a convex lens comes into contact with a glass plate, and which are caused by light interference
- noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
- one's twenties — the ages between 20–29
- one-liner wars — (games, programming) A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noise). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados. (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota.
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
- peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
- persian walnut — English walnut.
- phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
- rainbow series — (publication) Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover colour. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see Orange Book, crayola books); the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set (see Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book, White Book). Which books are meant by ""the" rainbow series" unqualified is thus dependent on one's local technical culture.
- rainbow wrasse — a brightly coloured Mediterranean fish ( Coris julis) of the Labridae family
- raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds