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14-letter words containing w, e, n, o

  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • have a down on — to bear ill will towards (someone or something)
  • hawaiian goose — nene.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • hell on wheels — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • hold one's own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
  • home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honeycomb work — stalactite work.
  • honeydew melon — a variety of the winter melon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a smooth, pale-green rind and sweet, juicy, light-green flesh.
  • in one's power — able or allowed (to)
  • in other words — that is to say
  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
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