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14-letter words containing w

  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • 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 guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
  • brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
  • buckwheat cake — a pancake made of buckwheat flour.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • buckwheat note — shape note.
  • building works — construction projects
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bull-nosed bow — a bow having a bulbous forefoot.
  • butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
  • c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • 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
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
  • china wood oil — tung oil
  • chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
  • choctawhatchee — a river in SE Alabama and NW Florida, flowing S to Choctawhatchee Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. 174 miles (280 km) long.
  • church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
  • circuit switch — circuit switching
  • civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class 5 switch — (communications)   The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
  • climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
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