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

  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • regional network — mid-level network
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • swine erysipelas — erysipelas (def 2).
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the written word — writing rather than speaking
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
  • war of secession — American Civil War.
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
  • warning triangle — a triangle placed by a broken-down car to warn motorists to avoid it
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
  • water-base paint — latex paint.
  • weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
  • weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
  • website designer — creator of internet pages and sites
  • welfare benefits — financial assistance; social security payment
  • well-experienced — wise or skillful in a particular field through experience: an experienced teacher.
  • west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
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