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13-letter words containing h, a, w, e

  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show me state — Missouri (used as a nickname).
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show-me state — Missouri2
  • snap the whip — crack the whip (def 2).
  • snowshoe hare — a large-footed North American hare, Lepus americanus, that is white in winter and dark brown in summer.
  • southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spear-thrower — a flexible device for launching a spear, usually a short cord wound around the spear so that when thrown the weapon will rotate in the air.
  • sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the west bank — a semi-autonomous Palestinian region in the Middle East on the W bank of the River Jordan, comprising the hills of Judaea and Samaria and part of Jerusalem: formerly part of Palestine (the entity created by the League of Nations in 1922 and operating until 1948): became part of Jordan after the ceasefire of 1949: occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. In 1993 a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization provided for the West Bank to become a self-governing Palestinian area; a new Palestinian National Authority assumed control of parts of the territory in 1994–95, but subsequent talks broke down and Israel reoccupied much of this in 2001–02 and continues to maintain most existing Israeli settlements. Pop: 2 676 740 (2013 est). Area: 5879 sq km (2270 sq miles)
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • to the marrow — deeply
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • wah-wah pedal — a foot pedal attached to an electronic musical instrument, used to create a sound that simulates the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered
  • walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
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