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14-letter words containing c, h, o, w

  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • showplace home — a historic house
  • southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
  • 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.
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
  • 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.
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
  • whooping cough — an infectious disease of the respiratory mucous membrane, caused by Bordetella pertussis, characterized by a series of short, convulsive coughs followed by a deep inspiration accompanied by a whooping sound.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
  • worcestershire — a former county in W central England, now part of Hereford and Worcester.
  • world champion — someone who has won a competition open to people throughout the whole world
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