14-letter words containing w, r, u
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- 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.
- tumbler switch — electrical control
- 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.
- turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
- turn the screw — to increase the pressure
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- 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
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- ward cunnigham — (person) The creator of the first wiki.
- wardour street — a street in Soho where many film companies have their London offices: formerly noted for shops selling antiques and mock antiques
- wardrobe trunk — a large, upright trunk, usually with space on one side for hanging clothes and drawers or compartments on the other for small articles, shoes, etc.
- warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
- waste products — the useless products of bodily processes
- water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
- water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.
- water measurer — a slender heteropterous bug, Hydrometra stagnorum, that has a greatly elongated head and is found on still or sluggish water where it preys on water fleas, mosquito larvae, etc
- water purifier — a device that purifies water
- water purslane — a creeping, Eurasian annual plant, Lythrum portula, of marshes and wetlands, having small flowers and rounded leaves.
- watercolourist — An artist who paints watercolours.
- wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
- weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
- well and truly — If you say that something is well and truly finished, gone, or done, you are emphasizing that it is completely finished or gone, or thoroughly done.
- well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
- well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- well-supported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
- western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
- western europe — countries in the west of Europe
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
- whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
- wild liquorice — a North American plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, that is related to true liquorice and has similar properties
- win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
- winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
- wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced