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

  • thought shower — brainstorm
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
  • 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'.
  • trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
  • 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.
  • turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
  • turn the screw — to increase the pressure
  • 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.
  • unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
  • vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
  • wardour street — a street in Soho where many film companies have their London offices: formerly noted for shops selling antiques and mock antiques
  • wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
  • waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.
  • water measurer — a slender heteropterous bug, Hydrometra stagnorum, that has a greatly elongated head and is found on still or sluggish water where it preys on water fleas, mosquito larvae, etc
  • water purifier — a device that purifies water
  • water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
  • watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
  • weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
  • well and truly — If you say that something is well and truly finished, gone, or done, you are emphasizing that it is completely finished or gone, or thoroughly done.
  • well-conducted — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • well-justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • well-modulated — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
  • well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • 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-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 europe — countries in the west of Europe
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
  • wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
  • wriggle out of — evade: a duty
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
  • yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
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