14-letter words containing w, h, o, l
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lower the boom — Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
- oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
- on the downlow — not widely known
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
- push down list — (programming) (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
- quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
- roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
- schoolies week — (in Australia) a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams
- self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- shillingsworth — the amount that can be purchased for a shilling
- showbiz column — a column about the entertainment industry
- shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
- showplace home — a historic house
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
- steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- 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.
- surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
- swollen-headed — conceited
- telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- 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 unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- 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.
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- throw light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
- twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
- two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.