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13-letter words containing h, e, w

  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
  • house sparrow — a small, hardy, buffy-brown and gray bird, Passer domesticus, of Europe, introduced into America, Australia, etc.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • housewifeship — the role of a housewife, household management
  • howler monkey — Central American simian variety
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • in the way of — similar to, like
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • into the wind — against the wind or upwind
  • irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
  • isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
  • kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
  • make off with — take away
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
  • megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
  • meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
  • microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
  • middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
  • might as well — have no reason not to
  • minimumweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
  • modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
  • monkey wrench — spanner
  • monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • mount whitney — a mountain in E California: the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and in continental US (excluding Alaska). Height: 4418 m (14 495 ft)
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
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