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14-letter words containing w, e, p, h

  • the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
  • wear the pants — trousers (def 1).
  • weather report — a summary of weather conditions, often including predicted conditions, for an area.
  • weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
  • weatherproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherproof.
  • weatherproofer — a worker who weatherproofs houses and other buildings.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • west hempstead — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
  • white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
  • white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
  • 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.
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
  • 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.
  • worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
  • zephyr worsted — lightweight worsted yarn.
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