14-letter words containing w, r, i
- a thing or two — If you say that a person knows a thing or two about something or could teach someone a thing or two about it, you mean that they know a lot about it or are good at it.
- absorbing well — a well for draining off surface water and conducting it to absorbent earth underground.
- aerial railway — a system of railway cars that move on cables
- aerial tramway — tramway (def 4).
- air stewardess — a stewardess on an airliner
- aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
- american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
- andrew toolkit — (tool) (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
- animal welfare — the protection of the health and well-being of animals
- atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
- atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
- be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- bewilderedness — the state of being bewildered
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- boatswain bird — tropic bird.
- borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
- brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
- browntail moth — kind of moth
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- building works — construction projects
- capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- commercial law — business law
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
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