15-letter words containing w, a, s, h, i
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- take issue with — disagree with
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- 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.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- 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.
- 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-his-name — man: forgotten name
- whatshumacallit — Alternative form of whatchamacallit.
- wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
- 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 christmas — A white Christmas is a Christmas when it snows.
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- withdrawal slip — a small paper form which has to be filled in before making a withdrawal of money from a bank, building society, etc
- 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
- yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.