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14-letter words containing e, t, h, l, w

  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
  • roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
  • steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
  • unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
  • walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • 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.
  • weight lifting — sport: competition to lift barbells
  • weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • 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.
  • west hollywood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
  • whistle blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • whistle-blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • whistleblowers — Plural form of whistleblower.
  • whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
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