14-letter words containing w, i, l, o, a, n
- prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
- rainbow-collar — being or of an employee who combines work or experience on the assembly line with more technical or administrative duties; having both blue-collar and white-collar duties or experience.
- sandalwood oil — extract of fragrant Asian wood
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
- tripolitan war — a war (1801–05) that Tripoli declared on the United States because of American refusal to pay tribute for the safe passage of shipping in Barbary Coastal waters.
- url forwarding — URL redirection
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- walk-in closet — a closet that is large enough to walk around in.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- well-appointed — attractively equipped, arranged, or furnished, especially for comfort or convenience: a well-appointed room.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- william bowman — William Scott ("Scotty") born 1933, Canadian hockey coach.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- willow pattern — a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
- window cleaner — someone that cleans windows for a living
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
- yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.