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

  • 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.
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
  • 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.
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
  • 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 headlines — a short news broadcast briefly outlining the main news stories of the day
  • on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
  • 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
  • paddle-wheeler — a steamboat propelled by a paddle wheel
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
  • 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.
  • propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
  • quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
  • 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.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • showplace home — a historic house
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • swelled-headed — an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • swollen-headed — conceited
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • 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 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 unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
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