14-letter words containing w, y, t
- play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
- property owner — sb who owns a building or land
- railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
- sit-down money — social security benefits
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
- south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
- take away from — detract
- take one's way — to go on a journey; travel
- teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
- ten years' war — a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.
- the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- the windy city — Chicago, Illinois
- 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
- 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 win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
- 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
- twopenny piece — a two pence coin
- unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- walk away with — escape
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- warrantability — The quality of being warrantable.
- water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
- wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
- weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- 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.
- west hollywood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- west lafayette — a city in central Indiana: suburb of Lafayette.
- west yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 787 sq. mi. (2039 sq. km).
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.