14-letter words containing wo
- 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 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.
- aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
- 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)
- ambulancewoman — a woman who works as part of an ambulance crew
- 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.
- aztec two-step — Montezuma's revenge
- bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
- battered woman — See under battered woman syndrome.
- battered-women — the array of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by women (battered women or battered wives) who have been beaten repeatedly or otherwise abused by their partners or spouses.
- beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
- 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
- breathe a word — to say something or anything
- building works — construction projects
- campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
- case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
- china wood oil — tung oil
- 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
- come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
- committeewoman — a female member of a committee
- committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
- compound-wound — noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
- garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- get/go to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
- golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
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