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

  • norwich terrier — one of an English breed of small, short-legged terriers having a straight, wiry, red, gray, or black-and-tan coat, and erect ears that distinguish it from the Norfolk terrier.
  • on the port bow — within 45 degrees to the port of straight ahead
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • read-write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
  • read/write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
  • shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • test the waters — assess or evaluate sth
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
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