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14-letter words containing w

  • a can of worms — If you say that someone is opening a can of worms, you are warning them that they are planning to do or talk about something which is much more complicated, unpleasant, or difficult than they realize and which might be better left alone.
  • a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  • 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.
  • abraham cowleyAbraham, 1618–67, English poet.
  • absorbing well — a well for draining off surface water and conducting it to absorbent earth underground.
  • acknowledgedly — by general agreement, admittedly
  • acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
  • adamawa massif — a plateau in W central Africa, in central Cameroon and E Nigeria.
  • 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.
  • alaska highway — a road extending from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska: built by the US Army (1942). Length: 2452 km (1523 miles)
  • albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
  • alfalfa weevil — a European weevil, Hypera postica, now also widely distributed in North America, that is an important pest, primarily of alfalfa, in both the larval and adult stages.
  • alfred wegener — Alfred Lothar [ahl-freyt loh-tahr,, loh-tahr] /ˈɑl freɪt ˈloʊ tɑr,, loʊˈtɑr/ (Show IPA), 1880–1930, German meteorologist and geophysicist: originated theory of continental drift.
  • alive and well — If you say that someone or something is alive and well, you are emphasizing that they continue to survive.
  • allhallows eve — Halloween.
  • allowance race — a race in which each horse is assigned a specified weight according to age, record of past performance, sex, etc.
  • ambulance crew — the team of people who man an ambulance
  • ambulancewoman — a woman who works as part of an ambulance crew
  • american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
  • analogue watch — a watch in which the hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds are indicated by hands on a dial
  • ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
  • and/or whatnot — People sometimes say 'and whatnot' or 'or whatnot' after mentioning one or more things, to refer in a vague way to other things which are similar.
  • andrew jacksonAndrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • andrew johnsonAndrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
  • andrew project — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
  • 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
  • answerableness — The state or quality of being answerable.
  • apparent power — The apparent power of an alternating current circuit is the product of the RMS values of the voltage and the current, expressed as volt-amperes.
  • arrest warrant — a legal document giving permission to arrest someone
  • as good as new — If you say that something or someone is as good as new, you mean that they are in a very good condition or state, especially after they have been damaged or ill.
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
  • 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 elbow — within easy reach
  • 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.
  • atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • avogadro's law — the principle that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules at the same temperature and pressure
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • aztec two-step — Montezuma's revenge
  • b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
  • backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
  • balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
  • ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.

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