14-letter words starting with w
- whortleberries — Plural form of whortleberry.
- wide-awake hat — a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
- wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
- wild buckwheat — umbrella plant (def 3).
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wild liquorice — a North American plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, that is related to true liquorice and has similar properties
- wild monkshood — a plant, Aconitum uncinatum, of the buttercup family, native to the eastern central U.S., having roundish leaves and hooded, blue flowers, growing in rich, moist soil.
- wild west show — an entertainment, often as part of a circus, representing scenes and events from the early history of the western U.S. and displaying feats of marksmanship, horseback riding, rope twirling, and the like.
- wildcat strike — unofficial work stoppage
- wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
- william bowman — William Scott ("Scotty") born 1933, Canadian hockey coach.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- willow pattern — a decorative design in English ceramics, depicting chiefly a willow tree, small bridge, and two birds, derived from Chinese sources and introduced in approximately 1780: often executed in blue and white but sometimes in red and white.
- willow warbler — any of several usually grayish-green leaf warblers, especially Phylloscopus trochilus, of Europe.
- wilson's snipe — a North American common snipe, Gallinago (Capella) gallinago delicata.
- wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
- win hands down — be outright winner
- win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
- wind deflector — an accessory that can be fitted to parts of a vehicle that are often open when driving, such as windows and sunroofs, to prevent the driver and passengers being buffeted by wind as well as reducing noise and keeping out flying debris
- wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
- wind indicator — a large weather vane used at airports to indicate wind direction.
- winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
- windmill grass — finger grass.
- window cleaner — someone that cleans windows for a living
- window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
- window dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windows nt 3.1 — (operating system) Microsoft's first version of Windows NT, released in September 1993, price UKP 395, after having been in beta-test for as long as anyone could remember. The person responsible for VMS on the DEC VAX [who?] was also responsible for Windows NT. Incrementing each letter in VMS yields WNT.
- windows nt 3.5 — (operating system) A much improved version of Microsoft's Windows NT 3.1. NT is now (July 1996) supplied as "Windows NT 3.5 Workstation" and "Windows NT 3.5 Server". It has better OLE support, higher performance and requires less memory.
- windows xp pro — Windows XP Professional Edition
- windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
- windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
- wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
- wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
- winkle-pickers — shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
- winning hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- winning streak — several consecutive wins
- winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
- winter aconite — a small Old World plant, Eranthis hyemalis, of the buttercup family, often cultivated for its bright-yellow flowers, which appear very early in the spring.
- winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
- winter springs — a town in central Florida.
- wire recording — a recording made on a wire recorder.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.
- witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
- witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
- with a capital — You can use phrases such as 'Life with a capital L', to emphasize that a word has a particular significance in the situation you are talking about.
- with a view to — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.