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14-letter words containing w, h, r

  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • freshers' week — a week at the beginning of a university year, usually with a programme of events intended to welcome new first-year students
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hammer away at — persist
  • hammer thrower — a contestant in a hammer throw
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
  • hardware store — shop selling DIY or home-improvement supplies
  • harewood house — a mansion near Harrogate in Yorkshire: built 1759–71 by John Carr for the Lascelles family; interior decoration by Robert Adam
  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • hermit warbler — a common wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis) of W North America, with a yellow-and-black head, a gray back, and white underparts
  • hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • hiram woodruffHiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
  • home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
  • homeward bound — going home
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