14-letter words containing w, e, t, s
- maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- middle western — of or relating to the Middle West.
- mum's the word — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- 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.
- oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
- 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.
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- 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.
- petworth house — a mansion in Petworth in Sussex: rebuilt (1688–96) for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset; gardens laid out by Capability Brown; subject of paintings by Turner
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
- 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 struggle — fight to take control
- power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- 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
- sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
- saint lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
- screw extruder — A screw extruder is a type of mixer which moves the components through a cylinder using a screw which turns.
- 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
- serrated wrack — the seaweed Fucus serratus