15-letter words containing u, h, r
- urquhart castle — a castle near Drumnadrochit in Highland, Scotland: situated on Loch Ness
- 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.
- 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.
- vitreous humour — the aqueous fluid contained within the interstices of the vitreous body
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
- water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
- weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
- 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
- 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.
- whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
- wilson's thrush — veery.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
- without reserve — without reservations; fully; wholeheartedly
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- youth orchestra — an orchestra that is made up of young musicians