14-letter words containing w, i, d, e, r
- weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
- welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
- well described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- well-confirmed — made certain as to truth, accuracy, validity, availability, etc.: confirmed reports of new fighting at the front; confirmed reservations on the three o'clock flight to Denver.
- well-delivered — to carry and turn over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients: to deliver mail; to deliver a package.
- well-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- well-dispersed — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- well-fortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- well-practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- well-practised — having or having been habitually or frequently practised in order to improve skill or quality
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wild liquorice — a North American plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, that is related to true liquorice and has similar properties
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wind deflector — an accessory that can be fitted to parts of a vehicle that are often open when driving, such as windows and sunroofs, to prevent the driver and passengers being buffeted by wind as well as reducing noise and keeping out flying debris
- wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
- winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
- window cleaner — someone that cleans windows for a living
- window dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- wire recording — a recording made on a wire recorder.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
- word blindness — alexia.
- world premiere — the first public performance of a play, motion picture, musical work, etc.
- world wide web — a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet (usually preceded by the). Abbreviation: WWW.
- world-wide web — (web, networking, hypertext) (WWW, W3, The Web) An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system. Basically, the web consists of documents or web pages in HTML format (a kind of hypertext), each of which has a unique URL or "web address". Links in a page are URLs of other pages which may be part of the same website or a page on another site on a different web server anywhere on the Internet. As well as HTML pages, a URL may refer to an image, some code (JavaScript or Java), CSS, a video stream or other kind of object. The vast majority of URLs start with "http://", indicating that the page needs to be fetched using the HTTP protocol. Other possibile "schemes" are HTTPS, which encrypts the request and the resulting page or FTP, the original protocol for transferring files over the Internet. RTSP is a streaming protocol that allow a continuous feed of audio or video from the server to the browser. Gopher was a predecessor of HTTP and Telnet starts an interactive command-line session with a remote server. The web is accessed using a client program known as a web browser that runs on the user's computer. The browser fetches and displays pages and allows the user to follow links by clicking on them (or similar action) and to input queries to the server. A variety of browsers are freely available, e.g. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari. Early examples were NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator. Queries can be entered into "forms" which allow the user to enter arbitrary text and select options from customisable menus and other controls. The server processes each request - either a simple URL or data from a form - and returns a response, typically a page of HTML. The World-Wide Web originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. In the early 1990s, the developers at CERN spread word of the Web's capabilities to scientific and academic audiences worldwide. By September 1993, the share of Web traffic traversing the NSFNET Internet backbone reached 75 gigabytes per month or one percent. By July 1994 it was one terabyte per month. The World Wide Web Consortium is the main standards body for the web. Following the widespread availability of web browsers and servers from about 1995, many companies realised they could use the same software and protocols on their own private internal TCP/IP networks giving rise to the term "intranet". {(http://hostname/here/there/page.html)}. These are transformed into hypertext links when you access it via the Web.
- worldly-minded — having or showing devotion to the affairs and interests of this world.
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling