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14-letter words containing w, r, a

  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet marjoram — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Origanum, of the mint family, especially O. majorana (sweet marjoram) having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • take away from — detract
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • ten years' war — a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.
  • test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • to wax lyrical — If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
  • to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • traffic warden — officer who monitors parking, etc.
  • transom window — a window divided by a transom.
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
  • two-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
  • two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
  • unknown factor — a factor that is not known or understood
  • unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • vesper sparrow — a common finch, Pooecetes gramineus, of fields and pastures in North America, noted for its evening song.
  • voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
  • wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
  • wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
  • wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
  • walk away from — to outdistance easily; defeat handily
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