15-letter words containing i, h, r
- visser 't hooft — Willem Adolf [vil-uh m ah-dawlf] /ˈvɪl əm ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–85, Dutch Protestant clergyman and writer: leader in ecumenical movement.
- vitreous humour — the aqueous fluid contained within the interstices of the vitreous body
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- vreni schneider — Vreni [vren-ee] /ˈvrɛn i/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Swiss Alpine ski racer.
- w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
- weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- weight training — weightlifting done as a conditioning exercise.
- wheaten terrier — soft-coated wheaten terrier.
- 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.
- whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
- whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
- white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
- white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
- white christmas — A white Christmas is a Christmas when it snows.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
- wilhelm meister — a novel (1795–1829) by Goethe.
- wilson's thrush — veery.
- winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
- with respect to — as regards
- withdrawal slip — a small paper form which has to be filled in before making a withdrawal of money from a bank, building society, etc
- without reserve — without reservations; fully; wholeheartedly
- worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
- xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
- xeroradiography — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
- xylotypographic — involving or pertaining to xylotypography
- yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
- yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
- zoogeographical — Pertaining to zoogeography.