13-letter words containing w, h
- in harm's way — If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
- into the wind — against the wind or upwind
- irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
- 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.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- know by heart — have memorized
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
- make off with — take away
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- marrow squash — any of several squashes having a smooth surface, an oblong shape, and a hard rind.
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- 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.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- might as well — have no reason not to
- minimumweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
- 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.
- mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- mount whitney — a mountain in E California: the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and in continental US (excluding Alaska). Height: 4418 m (14 495 ft)
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.