15-letter words containing a, w, h
- a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
- above the water — out of trouble or difficulty, esp financial trouble
- afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
- ah, wilderness! — a comedy (1933) by Eugene O'Neill.
- algaroth powder — antimony oxychloride.
- all-wheel drive — a system used in motor vehicles in which all four (or more) wheels are permanently connected to the source of power, in such a way that each wheel is able to rotate at a different speed
- answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
- anthony hawkins — Sir Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope") 1863–1933, English novelist and playwright.
- auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again
- bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
- bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
- barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
- beat all hollow — to outdo or surpass by far
- biblical hebrew — the Hebrew language used in the Old Testament. Abbreviation: BiblHeb.
- black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
- black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
- blackwall hitch — a knot for hooking tackle to the end of a rope, holding fast when pulled but otherwise loose
- brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
- canadian whisky — a blended whisky made in Canada from rye and other grains
- catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
- catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
- chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
- chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
- chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
- divided highway — a superhighway with a broad median strip, designed to prevent collisions, headlight glare, etc., between vehicles moving in opposite directions, and usually having limited or cloverleaf access.
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
- 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
- fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
- 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.
- 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).
- 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 with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
- 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.
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