15-letter words containing h, a, t, w
- software method — Software Methodology
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- spread the word — make others aware
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- take issue with — disagree with
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- test the waters — assess or evaluate sth
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- 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 lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- the other woman — married man's female lover
- the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
- the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
- the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
- the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
- to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
- tomato hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca quinquemaculata, having a black, hornlike structure at the rear, that feeds on the leaves of tomato, potato, and other plants of the nightshade family.
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- towers of hanoi — (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- twitching trail — a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor.
- unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- 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.
- walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
- washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.