15-letter words containing w, e, h, o
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
- sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
- shockwave flash — flash
- shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
- shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- short and sweet — having little length; not long.
- short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- 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.
- show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
- software method — Software Methodology
- solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- south-southwest — the point on the compass midway between south and southwest.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- spread the word — make others aware
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the common weal — the good of society
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
- the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
- the other woman — married man's female lover
- the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
- the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
- the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
- the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
- the whole shoot — everything
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
- to chew the cud — When animals such as cows or sheep chew the cud, they slowly chew their partly-digested food over and over again in their mouth before finally swallowing it.
- to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.