15-letter words containing h, e, l, r, w
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
- 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 lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
- the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
- the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
- 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.
- two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- weather balloon — sounding balloon.
- wechsler scales — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
- wee small hours — the hours just after midnight
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- 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)
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- wilhelm meister — a novel (1795–1829) by Goethe.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- women's shelter — woman's refuge
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent