14-letter words containing w, e, t, s
- weatherglasses — Plural form of weatherglass.
- weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- webster groves — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- well-justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- well-respected — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.
- well-satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
- west berkshire — a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop: 144 200 (2003 est). Area: 705 sq km (272 sq miles)
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- west hempstead — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- west hollywood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- west lafayette — a city in central Indiana: suburb of Lafayette.
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- west yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 787 sq. mi. (2039 sq. km).
- west-northwest — a point on the compass midway between west and northwest.
- west-southwest — a point on the compass midway between west and southwest.
- western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
- western empire — the western portion of the Roman Empire after its division, a.d. 395, which became extinct a.d. 476.
- western europe — countries in the west of Europe
- western omelet — an omelet prepared with diced green peppers, onions, and ham.
- western saddle — a heavy saddle having a deep seat, high cantle and pommel, pommel horn, wide leather flaps for protecting the rider's legs, and little padding.
- western sahara — a region in NW Africa on the Atlantic coast, bounded by Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania: a former Spanish province comprising Río de Oro and Saguia el Hamra 1884–1976; divided between Morocco and Mauritania 1976; claimed entirely by Morocco 1979, but still under dispute. About 102,700 sq. mi. (266,000 sq. km).
- western thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- western writer — a person who writes westerns
- westernisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernization.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- when it's done — (jargon) A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. It also sounds slightly better than "We don't know".
- whistle blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- whistle-blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- whistleblowers — Plural form of whistleblower.
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
- white sea bass — a large weakfish, Atractoscion nobilis, occurring along the Pacific coast of North America and popular as a sport and food fish.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- who needs sth? — You can say 'Who needs something?' as a way of emphasizing that you think that this thing is unnecessary or not useful.
- whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
- whortleberries — Plural form of whortleberry.
- wild west show — an entertainment, often as part of a circus, representing scenes and events from the early history of the western U.S. and displaying feats of marksmanship, horseback riding, rope twirling, and the like.
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage