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14-letter words containing w, e, i, s, h

  • 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
  • well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
  • well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
  • well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
  • west berkshire — a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop: 144 200 (2003 est). Area: 705 sq km (272 sq miles)
  • west yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 787 sq. mi. (2039 sq. km).
  • when it's done — (jargon)   A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. It also sounds slightly better than "We don't know".
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
  • whistle blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • whistle-blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • whistleblowers — Plural form of whistleblower.
  • whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
  • white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
  • white sea bass — a large weakfish, Atractoscion nobilis, occurring along the Pacific coast of North America and popular as a sport and food fish.
  • whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
  • whortleberries — Plural form of whortleberry.
  • wild west show — an entertainment, often as part of a circus, representing scenes and events from the early history of the western U.S. and displaying feats of marksmanship, horseback riding, rope twirling, and the like.
  • wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
  • wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
  • window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • 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.
  • witches'-besom — witches'-broom.
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • woolly thistle — a tall perennial plant; Cirsium eriophorum
  • worcestershire — a former county in W central England, now part of Hereford and Worcester.
  • worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
  • worthwhileness — such as to repay one's time, attention, interest, work, trouble, etc.: a worthwhile book.
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • wristlet watch — a watch that is attached to a band or bracelet
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