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14-letter words containing w, i, l, s, t

  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • to blow a kiss — If you blow someone a kiss or blow a kiss, you touch the palm of your hand lightly with your lips, and then blow across your hand towards the person, in order to show them your affection.
  • to follow suit — If people follow suit, they do the same thing that someone else has just done.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • two-time loser — a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
  • 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.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • waste disposal — A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste.
  • waste material — a useless by-product of an industrial process
  • watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
  • watling island — San Salvador (def 1).
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • 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-satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
  • welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
  • 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.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
  • whistling swan — the small North American subspecies, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, of the tundra swan.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • 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
  • wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
  • wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
  • windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • 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.
  • woolly thistle — a tall perennial plant; Cirsium eriophorum
  • worthwhileness — such as to repay one's time, attention, interest, work, trouble, etc.: a worthwhile book.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • wristlet watch — a watch that is attached to a band or bracelet
  • writer's block — a usually temporary condition in which a writer finds it impossible to proceed with the writing of a novel, play, or other work.
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