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14-letter words containing wo

  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • sweet wormwood — a widely distributed plant, Artemisia annua, having scented leaves and loose, nodding clusters of yellow flowers.
  • swollen-headed — conceited
  • tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • to get 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.
  • twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • two-name paper — commercial paper having more than one obligor, usually a maker and endorser, both of whom are fully liable.
  • two-time loser — a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
  • two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
  • 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
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • vegetable wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
  • voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
  • water dropwort — any of several umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Oenanthe, with umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • water starwort — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Callitriche, having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves: family Callitrichaceae
  • welfare worker — sb who does social or community work
  • west hollywood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • wollaston lake — a lake in NE Saskatchewan, in central Canada. About 796 sq. mi. (2062 sq. km).
  • wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
  • wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • woman-to-woman — characterized by directness, openness, etc., between women.
  • women's centre — a centre providing medical or social services for women
  • women's libber — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
  • women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
  • woodrow wilson — Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) [jon-stuh n,, -suh n] /ˈdʒɒn stən,, -sən/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, English writer.
  • woolly mammoth — a large extinct elephant
  • woolly thistle — a tall perennial plant; Cirsium eriophorum
  • worcesterberry — a North American wild gooseberry, Ribes divaricatum
  • worcestershire — a former county in W central England, now part of Hereford and Worcester.
  • word blindness — alexia.
  • word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
  • word of honour — a promise; oath
  • word processor — a computer program or computer system designed for word processing.
  • work placement — temporary job, internship
  • work prospects — chances of gaining employment
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
  • world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
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