14-letter words containing w, h, u
- krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- 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.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- 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
- mum's the word — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
- out of nowhere — unexpectedly
- out of the way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- out the window — discarded or wasted
- out-of-the-way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
- petworth house — a mansion in Petworth in Sussex: rebuilt (1688–96) for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset; gardens laid out by Capability Brown; subject of paintings by Turner
- push down list — (programming) (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
- quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
- reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
- roulette wheel — spinning part of roulette table
- schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
- shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
- showbiz column — a column about the entertainment industry
- shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- south whittier — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
- southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
- southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
- southwesterner — a native or inhabitant of the southwest.
- southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
- straw mushroom — a small brown mushroom, Volvariella volvacea, used in Asian cookery.
- 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.
- sun-worshipper — someone who worships the sun as a deity
- surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- sweet chestnut — tree: edible nuts
- tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
- 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 unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- 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.
- thought shower — brainstorm
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
- tumbler switch — electrical control
- turn the screw — to increase the pressure
- twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset