13-letter words containing w, h, o, r
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- happy warrior — a person who is undiscouraged by difficulties or opposition.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
- home row keys — home keys
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honore morrow — Honoré Willsie [on-uh-rey wil-see,, on-uh-rey] /ˈɒn əˌreɪ ˈwɪl si,, ˌɒn əˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1940, U.S. novelist.
- honors of war — special privileges granted to a defeated army, as that of continuing to bear arms
- hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
- hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
- horror writer — a writer of horror fiction or horror stories
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- house sparrow — a small, hardy, buffy-brown and gray bird, Passer domesticus, of Europe, introduced into America, Australia, etc.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- how's tricks? — how are you?
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- know by heart — have memorized
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- marrow squash — any of several squashes having a smooth surface, an oblong shape, and a hard rind.
- megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
- meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
- monkey wrench — spanner
- monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
- morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.