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15-letter words containing r, h, e, o

  • uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • under one's hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
  • unpolished rice — a partly refined rice, hulled and deprived of its germ but retaining some bran.
  • unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
  • vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
  • 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
  • visible horizon — horizon (def 1).
  • visser 't hooft — Willem Adolf [vil-uh m ah-dawlf] /ˈvɪl əm ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–85, Dutch Protestant clergyman and writer: leader in ecumenical movement.
  • vitreous humour — the aqueous fluid contained within the interstices of the vitreous body
  • vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
  • water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • with respect to — as regards
  • without reserve — without reservations; fully; wholeheartedly
  • women's shelter — woman's refuge
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
  • xerographically — In a xerographic way; by xerography.
  • xeroradiography — an x-ray utilizing a specially coated plate that allows a picture to be developed without the use of liquid chemicals.
  • yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
  • yorkshire dales — the valleys of the rivers flowing from the Pennines in W Yorkshire: chiefly Ribblesdale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Wharfedale, and Wensleydale; tourist area
  • youth orchestra — an orchestra that is made up of young musicians
  • zoogeographical — Pertaining to zoogeography.
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