15-letter words containing l, h, e, r
- 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.
- unnatural death — death resulting from an external cause, such as intentional injury (such as homicide or suicide) or unintentional injury (in an accident)
- unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
- unrehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- 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
- vice chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
- vice-chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
- vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
- virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
- visible horizon — horizon (def 1).
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- weather balloon — sounding balloon.
- 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
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- 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
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
- 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
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
- xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
- 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.