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13-letter words containing w, e, l, h

  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • shivering owl — screech owl.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • sit well with — to be agreeable to
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • stern-wheeler — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • swash letters — italic capital letters formed with long tails and flourishes
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • the last word — final retort
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the new world — the Americas; the western hemisphere
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • three-wheeler — a vehicle equipped with three wheels, as a tricycle, a motorcycle with a sidecar, or some small, experimental, or early-model cars.
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
  • tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • wah-wah pedal — a foot pedal attached to an electronic musical instrument, used to create a sound that simulates the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered
  • walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
  • warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
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