14-letter words containing w, r, i
- fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
- global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
- grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
- growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
- hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
- health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- in one's power — able or allowed (to)
- in other words — that is to say
- indian warrior — a lousewort, Pedicularis densiflora, of the western U.S., having densely clustered red flowers.
- indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- interfere with — tamper with