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14-letter words containing w, h, e

  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • spanner wrench — a spanner with a fixed opening that cannot be adjusted to different sizes
  • spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
  • steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • 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.
  • sun-worshipper — someone who worships the sun as a deity
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet chestnut — tree: edible nuts
  • sweet nothings — terms of endearment
  • swelled-headed — an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • swollen-headed — conceited
  • tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
  • 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 all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • 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 snow queen — a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1845; a young boy, Kay, falls under a troll's spell and his heart is turned to ice. He is carried off by the Snow Queen, who holds him captive until he is rescued by his devoted friend, Gerda
  • the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • the whim-whams — an uneasy, nervous feeling; the jitters
  • the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
  • 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 windy city — Chicago, Illinois
  • 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.
  • titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
  • 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.
  • to think twice — If you think twice about doing something, you consider it again and decide not to do it, or decide to do it differently.
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