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14-letter words containing w, e, t, i

  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet nothings — terms of endearment
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the whim-whams — an uneasy, nervous feeling; the jitters
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the windy city — Chicago, Illinois
  • time will tell — sth will be revealed
  • titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
  • to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
  • tongue twister — a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds, as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”.
  • tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • two-time loser — a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
  • twopenny piece — a two pence coin
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
  • wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
  • wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
  • wait in a line — When people wait in a line, they stand in a line waiting for something.
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
  • walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
  • walking ticket — walking papers.
  • wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
  • warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • waste disposal — A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste.
  • waste material — a useless by-product of an industrial process
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.
  • water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
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