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14-letter words containing w, e, l, r, h

  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
  • quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
  • roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • warehouse club — A warehouse club is a large shop which sells goods at reduced prices to people who pay each year to become members of the organization that runs the shop.
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
  • weatherglasses — Plural form of weatherglass.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • 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-rehearsed — to practice (a musical composition, a play, a speech, etc.) in private prior to a public presentation.
  • wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
  • wheeler-dealer — a person who wheels and deals.
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • 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.
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
  • wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whortleberries — Plural form of whortleberry.
  • wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
  • 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
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • 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.
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