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

  • roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
  • schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
  • search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • shredded wheat — a breakfast cereal made by shredding cooked, dried whole wheat and baking or toasting it in biscuit- or spoon-size pieces.
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • south whittier — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
  • southwesterner — a native or inhabitant of the southwest.
  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • 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 phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • 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.
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
  • thought shower — brainstorm
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  • throw together — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • trench warfare — combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turn the screw — to increase the pressure
  • twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
  • water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
  • watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
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