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14-letter words containing a, t, h, w, r

  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
  • mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • new netherland — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • no matter what — whatever
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
  • richard tawneyRichard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • shredded wheat — a breakfast cereal made by shredding cooked, dried whole wheat and baking or toasting it in biscuit- or spoon-size pieces.
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • straight arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
  • straw mushroom — a small brown mushroom, Volvariella volvacea, used in Asian cookery.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • 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
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
  • throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
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