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15-letter words containing w, h, o, r

  • a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
  • above the water — out of trouble or difficulty, esp financial trouble
  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • algaroth powder — antimony oxychloride.
  • answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
  • brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • christcross-row — the alphabet.
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
  • crown of thorns — a climbing spurge, Euphorbia milii splendens, of Madagascar, having stems covered with spines.
  • crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • fashion-forward — relating to, anticipating, or reflecting the most up-to-date fashion trends
  • flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
  • free throw line — foul line (def 2).
  • go through with — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • highway robbery — robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
  • horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
  • horsepower-hour — a foot-pound-second unit of energy or work, equal to the work done by a mechanism with a power output of one horsepower over a period of one hour.
  • hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • indian hawthorn — a southern Chinese evergreen shrub, Raphiolepis indica, of the rose family, having shiny, leathery leaves and pinkish-white flowers in loose clusters.
  • irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
  • javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
  • joint ownership — sharing of property
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.

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