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15-letter words containing e, n, h, a, l

  • under-the-table — transacted in secret or in an underhanded manner.
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • unnatural death — death resulting from an external cause, such as intentional injury (such as homicide or suicide) or unintentional injury (in an accident)
  • unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • unteachableness — the quality or condition of being unteachable
  • venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
  • vice chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
  • vice-chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
  • vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
  • virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
  • 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)
  • westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
  • whalebone whale — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, having plates of whalebone on the sides of the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
  • yucatán channel — a channel between W Cuba and the Yucatán peninsula
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