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14-letter words containing w, e, r, n, i

  • winter aconite — a small Old World plant, Eranthis hyemalis, of the buttercup family, often cultivated for its bright-yellow flowers, which appear very early in the spring.
  • 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.
  • wire recording — a recording made on a wire recorder.
  • 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 open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
  • 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
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
  • word blindness — alexia.
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
  • worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
  • worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
  • worthwhileness — such as to repay one's time, attention, interest, work, trouble, etc.: a worthwhile book.
  • wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
  • wrapping paper — heavy paper used for wrapping packages, parcels, etc.
  • wrecking crane — a crane for lifting and removing wrecked rolling stock.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • wring together — to join (two smooth flat surfaces, esp slip gauges) by hand pressure and a slight twisting movement
  • writ of extent — extent (def 4a).
  • yellow yorling — a yellowhammer
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