17-letter words containing a, w, h

for all the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
freight forwarder — a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.
george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
go out of the way — to inconvenience oneself; do something that one would not ordinarily do, or that requires extra or deliberate effort or trouble
go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
great-grandnephew — a grandson of one's nephew or niece.
greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
hardware register — (hardware, system administration) (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
have no words for — to be incapable of describing
hawking radiation — the emission of particles by a black hole. Pairs of virtual particles in the intense gravitational field around a black hole may live long enough for one to move outward when the other is pulled into the black hole, making it appear that the black hole is emitting radiation
highways engineer — a civil engineer trained and specialized in the planning, construction, maintenance, etc of highways and roads
hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
how's-your-father — sexual intercourse
hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
julian of norwich — ?1342–?1413, English mystic and anchoress: best known for the Revelations of Divine Love describing her visions
king philip's war — the war (1675–76) between New England colonists and a confederation of Indians under their leader, King Philip.
lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
law of trichotomy — the property that for natural numbers a and b , either a is less than b , a equals b , or a is greater than b .
lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
lewis with harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
message switching — store and forward
metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
minion of the law — a policeman.
mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered

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