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

  • waiting in the wings — standing offstage and ready to make an entrance
  • war of the rebellion — American Civil War.
  • warrensville heights — a city in NE Ohio.
  • watering of the eyes — the formation of tears in the eyes
  • webbing clothes moth — a small brown moth, Tineola biselliella, the larva of which feeds on woolens and spins a web when feeding.
  • weights and measures — units or standards of measurement
  • western mountain ash — a mountain ash, Sorbus sitchensis, of western North America.
  • wheels within wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • white elephant stall — a stall, usually at a fete or fundraising event, where unwanted possessions are sold
  • white-fringed beetle — any of several weevils of the genus Graphognathus, native to South America and now of southeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S., whose larvae feed on roots and cause serious damage to a wide variety of plants.
  • whyte classification — a system for classifying steam locomotives according to the total number of wheels on the front trucks, drivers, and rear trucks, in that order. For example, a Pacific locomotive is designated as 4-6-2.
  • wipe the slate clean — begin afresh
  • with all one's heart — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
  • with all one's might — If you do something with all your might, you do it using all your strength and energy.
  • with one's 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's eyes shut — with great ease, esp as a result of thorough familiarity
  • with/in reference to — You use with reference to or in reference to in order to indicate what something relates to.
  • without detriment to — If something happens without detriment to a person or thing, it does not harm or damage them.
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
  • writer to the signet — (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs
  • you know what i mean — You can use expressions such as you know what I mean and if you know what I mean to suggest that the person listening to you understands what you are trying to say, and so you do not have to explain any more.
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