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14-letter words containing w, i, t, h, e, r

  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • 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.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • south whittier — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • swimmer's itch — an inflammation of the skin, resembling insect bites, caused by burrowing larval forms of schistosomes.
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • 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
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
  • water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
  • 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.
  • weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
  • weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
  • weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
  • weatherization — (US) The process of weatherizing.
  • weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • weight watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weight-watcher — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • weightwatchers — a person who is dieting to control his or her weight.
  • welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
  • west berkshire — a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop: 144 200 (2003 est). Area: 705 sq km (272 sq miles)
  • west yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 787 sq. mi. (2039 sq. km).
  • whistle blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • whistle-blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • whistleblowers — Plural form of whistleblower.
  • white charlock — a related plant, Raphanus raphanistrum, with yellow, mauve, or white flowers and podlike fruits
  • white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
  • whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
  • whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
  • whortleberries — Plural form of whortleberry.
  • wilhelmstrasse — a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
  • wiltshire horn — a breed of medium-sized sheep having horns in both male and female, originating from the Chalk Downs, England
  • winter clothes — the type of heavy, warm clothing that people tend to wear in very cold weather
  • witches'-broom — an abnormal, brushlike growth of small thin branches on woody plants, caused especially by fungi, viruses, and mistletoes.
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
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