14-letter words containing a, w, h, l
- 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
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
- walk away with — escape
- walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
- warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
- weatherglasses — Plural form of weatherglass.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- well-rehearsed — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
- welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- whachamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
- whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
- wheel and axle — a simple machine consisting, in its typical form, of a cylindrical drum to which a wheel concentric with the drum is firmly fastened: ropes are so applied that as one unwinds from the wheel, another rope is wound on to the drum.
- wheel and deal — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- wheeler-dealer — a person who wheels and deals.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whirlpool bath — a bath in which the body is immersed in swirling water as therapy or for relaxation.
- whistling swan — the small North American subspecies, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, of the tundra swan.
- white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
- white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
- whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- 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.
- wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
- 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.
- woolly mammoth — a large extinct elephant
- world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
- wristlet watch — a watch that is attached to a band or bracelet
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.