14-letter words containing w, e, s, t, n
- indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- know the score — understand the situation
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- 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 tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- master workman — a worker in charge.
- maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
- 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.
- network closet — (networking) The place where network hardware (other than cabling) is installed. The space should be used primarily for storage, be dry, and have electricity available. Since network equipment rarely needs attention once installed and tested, the network closet can have limited accessibility.
- new australian — an immigrant to Australia, esp one whose native tongue is not English
- new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
- new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
- new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
- new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
- news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
- 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
- north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwesterner — a native or inhabitant of the northwest.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
- one's twenties — the ages between 20–29
- one-horse town — a small or obscure town
- one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
- 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.
- persian walnut — English walnut.
- 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.
- power-on reset — (hardware) (POR) The processes that take place when a hardware device is turned on. This may include running power-on self-test or reloading software from non-volatile storage. The term implies that the device has some reasonably complex internal state that will be set back to a "normal" initial condition. This state may include the physical state of the device (e.g. a printer) as well as data in the memory of an embedded system. If a device has no reset button, and sometimes even if it does, turning it off and on again (power cycling) may be the only way to clear a fault.
- raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
- saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
- self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- sensor network — a network of tiny autonomous devices embedded in everyday objects or sprinkled on the ground, able to communicate using wireless links
- sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
- silent witness — a person who observes but makes no comment on or has no involvement in an action