0%

17-letter words containing n, o, s, h, w

  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • boatswain's chair — a seat consisting of a short flat board slung from ropes, used to support a person working on the side of a vessel or in its rigging
  • charles henry dowCharles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.
  • charles townshendCharles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • dog and pony show — an elaborate sales, advertising, or publicity presentation or campaign.
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • down-at-the-heels — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • follow the hounds — to hunt a fox, etc. on horseback with hounds
  • george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • have no words for — to be incapable of describing
  • horst wessel song — the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
  • john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
  • know when to stop — If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • mother spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium bulbiferum, of tropical Africa and Australasia, the fronds often bearing bulbils that sprout into new plants while still attached, grown as an ornamental.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • neck of the woods — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • northwest by west — a point on the compass, 11°15′ west of northwest. Abbreviation: NWbW.
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • on one's own hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • prusso-danish war — a war of 1864 between Prussia and Denmark by which Denmark lost Schleswig-Holstein.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • run short/run low — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • saint john's wort — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Hypericum, having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves.
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
  • show in (or out) — to usher into (or out of) a given place
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • spin one's wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.

On this page, we collect all 17-letter words with N-O-S-H-W. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 17-letter word that contains in N-O-S-H-W to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles

Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?