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17-letter words containing o, h, w, e, l

  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • roof of the world — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • rough-legged hawk — a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.
  • sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • spin one's wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • to oil the wheels — If someone or something oils the wheels of a process or system, they help things to run smoothly and successfully.
  • to play with fire — If you say that someone is playing with fire, you mean that they are doing something dangerous that may result in great harm for them and cause many problems.
  • to steal the show — If you say that someone steals the show, you mean that they get a lot of attention or praise because they perform better than anyone else in a show or other event.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
  • well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
  • well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • welsh nationalist — a person who believes that Wales should be independent
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • wet one's whistle — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
  • whistler's mother — (formal name, Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother) a painting (1871) by James McNeill Whistler.
  • white blood cells — any of various nearly colorless cells of the immune system that circulate mainly in the blood and lymph and participate in reactions to invading microorganisms or foreign particles, comprising the B cells, T cells, macrophages, monocytes, and granulocytes.
  • white-nationalism — white supremacy.
  • william shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
  • willow flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
  • windowglass shell — capiz.
  • winter heliotrope — a creeping perennial, Petasites fragrans, related to the butterbur, having lilac to heliotrope-coloured flowers smelling of vanilla: found chiefly on road verges
  • wish someone well — to wish success or good fortune for someone
  • withdrawal method — a method of contraception in which the man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina before ejaculation
  • woolly rhinoceros — an extinct rhinoceros; Coelodonta antiquitatis
  • world without end — for ever
  • worth one's while — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
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