15-letter words containing h, e, r, l, s
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- turn the scales — to determine or decide something uncertain
- turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- 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.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unchristianlike — not like a Christian; not in accordance with Christian teaching and values
- 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.
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unrelinquishing — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- urquhart castle — a castle near Drumnadrochit in Highland, Scotland: situated on Loch Ness
- visible horizon — horizon (def 1).
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- 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
- 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
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
- 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
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area