14-letter words containing w, i, r, e, h
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
- be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- cremnitz white — lead white.
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- 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.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- 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.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- 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
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- horsehair worm — any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
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