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15-letter words containing c, w, t, h

  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
  • to chew the cud — When animals such as cows or sheep chew the cud, they slowly chew their partly-digested food over and over again in their mouth before finally swallowing it.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • twitching trail — a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
  • watch committee — a local government committee composed of magistrates and representatives of the county borough council responsible for the efficiency of the local police force
  • watch the clock — If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible.
  • wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
  • western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • whatchamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
  • whatshumacallit — Alternative form of whatchamacallit.
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white chocolate — a chocolate-type product made of milk and sugar that are cooked together until highly condensed and then mixed with cocoa butter.
  • white christmas — A white Christmas is a Christmas when it snows.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
  • whitley council — any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service
  • winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • with respect to — as regards
  • without a hitch — smoothly, easily, and successfully
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
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