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14-letter words containing a, s, w, h

  • hawaiian goose — nene.
  • hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • 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.
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
  • just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • news headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • one-woman show — a show or performance performed by one woman
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • prawn-sandwich — characterizing or belonging to the type of spectator at a football match who is motivated to attend more by the corporate hospitality available than a true devotion to a particular club
  • propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
  • sewing machine — any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • showplace home — a historic house
  • shredded wheat — a breakfast cereal made by shredding cooked, dried whole wheat and baking or toasting it in biscuit- or spoon-size pieces.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • skip-tooth saw — a saw with alternate teeth absent
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