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15-letter words containing w, a, n, h, s

  • shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • show one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • show one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • shrink-wrapping — a flexible plastic wrapping designed to shrink about its contours to protect and seal something
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
  • swellheadedness — the fact or state of being conceited
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
  • walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
  • washing machine — an apparatus, especially a household appliance, for washing clothing, linens, etc.
  • washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
  • washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
  • washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
  • 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)
  • westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
  • whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • what's-her-name — a girl or woman whose name is unknown, temporarily forgotten, or deliberately overlooked
  • what's-his-name — man: forgotten name
  • whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
  • whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
  • whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white mountains — a mountain range in the US, chiefly in N New Hampshire: part of the Appalachians. Highest peak: Mount Washington, 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
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