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14-letter words containing i, n, t, h, e, w

  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet nothings — terms of endearment
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the windy city — Chicago, Illinois
  • titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
  • to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
  • to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
  • watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
  • weatherization — (US) The process of weatherizing.
  • weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
  • weight lifting — sport: competition to lift barbells
  • weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
  • whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
  • when it's done — (jargon)   A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. It also sounds slightly better than "We don't know".
  • whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
  • white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • white-knuckled — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • worthwhileness — such as to repay one's time, attention, interest, work, trouble, etc.: a worthwhile book.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • wring together — to join (two smooth flat surfaces, esp slip gauges) by hand pressure and a slight twisting movement
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