14-letter words containing s, g, h, w
- spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
- steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
- straight arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
- sweet nothings — terms of endearment
- swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
- the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
- thought shower — brainstorm
- throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- weatherglasses — Plural form of weatherglass.
- web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
- whistling swan — the small North American subspecies, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, of the tundra swan.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- wiring harness — a system of insulated conducting wires bound together with insulating materials, used in the electrical system of a machine, as a motor vehicle or washing machine.
- women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling