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15-letter words containing w, h

  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • every which way — Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • fashion-forward — relating to, anticipating, or reflecting the most up-to-date fashion trends
  • field chickweed — starry grasswort.
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
  • free throw line — foul line (def 2).
  • freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • go through with — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
  • goody two-shoes — goody-goody
  • goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
  • great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
  • green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
  • greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
  • hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
  • hardware dealer — a person or shop who deals in metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
  • have a way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • have a whack at — to aim a blow at
  • have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
  • hawaiian pidgin — an English-based creole widely spoken in Hawaii.
  • hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
  • heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
  • heath speedwell — a temperate scrophulariaceous plant, Veronica officinalis, having small blue or pinkish white flowers
  • hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
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