14-letter words containing a, t, w, h
- go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- go on the swag — to become a tramp
- go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hammer away at — persist
- hammer thrower — a contestant in a hammer throw
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- 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.
- health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
- how about that — delight, surprise
- hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
- in league with — along with, plotting with
- in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
- interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
- jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
- 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.
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
- 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 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.
- 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
- night watchman — watchman.
- no matter what — whatever
- northeastwards — northeastward.
- northwestwards — northwestward.
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work