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14-letter words containing w, r, s, t

  • a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  • across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
  • 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.
  • arrest warrant — a legal document giving permission to arrest someone
  • at (the) worst — You use at worst or at the worst to indicate that you are mentioning the worst thing that might happen in a situation.
  • at one's worst — When someone is at their worst, they are as unpleasant, bad, or unsuccessful as it is possible for them to be.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • break the news — announce sth
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • brewer's yeast — a yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in brewing
  • 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.
  • brewster's law — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
  • brown stem rot — a disease of soybeans, characterized by brown discoloration and decay of internal tissues of the stem and leaf, caused by a fungus, Cephalosporium gregatum.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
  • 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.
  • carpet sweeper — a pushable, long-handled implement for removing dirt, lint, etc., from rugs and carpets, consisting of a metal case enclosing one or more brushes that rotate.
  • carpet-sweeper — a household device with a revolving brush for sweeping carpets
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • circuit switch — circuit switching
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • 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)
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • daniel websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • descartes' law — Snell's law.
  • dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drop-down list — pull-down list
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.

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