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14-letter words containing w, h, t, s

  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • sweet chestnut — tree: edible nuts
  • sweet nothings — terms of endearment
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
  • 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
  • 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 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 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 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 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.
  • 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
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turn the screw — to increase the pressure
  • twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • two-horse race — a competition, election, etc, in which there are only two teams or candidates with a chance of winning
  • 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.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • wainscot chair — an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.
  • walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
  • water chestnut — any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
  • water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
  • watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
  • wear the pants — trousers (def 1).
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weatherglasses — Plural form of weatherglass.
  • weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
  • weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
  • weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
  • weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • welsh mountain — a common breed of small hardy sheep kept mainly in the mountains of Wales
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