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

  • wear the pants — trousers (def 1).
  • weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
  • weather report — a summary of weather conditions, often including predicted conditions, for an area.
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
  • weather-beaten — bearing evidences of wear or damage as a result of exposure to the weather.
  • weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
  • weatherboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherboard.
  • weatherglasses — Plural form of weatherglass.
  • weatherization — (US) The process of weatherizing.
  • weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
  • weatherproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherproof.
  • weatherproofer — a worker who weatherproofs houses and other buildings.
  • weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • weight watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weight-watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • 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).
  • west-northwest — a point on the compass midway between west and northwest.
  • western church — the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.
  • western sahara — a region in NW Africa on the Atlantic coast, bounded by Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania: a former Spanish province comprising Río de Oro and Saguia el Hamra 1884–1976; divided between Morocco and Mauritania 1976; claimed entirely by Morocco 1979, but still under dispute. About 102,700 sq. mi. (266,000 sq. km).
  • western thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
  • what manner of — You use what manner of to suggest that the person or thing you are about to mention is of an unusual or unknown kind.
  • whether or not — no matter if, even if
  • 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 mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • 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.
  • whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
  • wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whorehouse cut — a cut in which a pack is divided into two parts, each of which is divided again before the pack is reassembled.
  • whortleberries — Plural form of whortleberry.
  • 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
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • worcestershire — a former county in W central England, now part of Hereford and Worcester.
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