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16-letter words containing w, i, n, e

  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • raise an eyebrow — If something causes you to raise an eyebrow or to raise your eyebrows, it causes you to feel surprised or disapproving.
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • regional network — mid-level network
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • seaside knotweed — See under knotweed.
  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • swine erysipelas — erysipelas (def 2).
  • swinging sixties — the 1960s as a decade when social and sexual freedom increased
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • swiss stone pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra,, found especially in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
  • the written word — writing rather than speaking
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
  • to wine and dine — If you wine and dine, or if someone wines and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • twelvepenny nail — a nail that is 3 1/4 inches (8.25 cm) long.
  • twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • viewing audience — the audience reached by television
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