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14-letter words containing w, h, a

  • 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.
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • 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
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • hiram woodruffHiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • 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.
  • how about that — delight, surprise
  • howland island — an island in the central Pacific, near the equator: U.S. meteorological station and airfield. 1 sq. mi. (2.6 sq. km).
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
  • hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
  • kawartha lakes — a group of lakes in S Ontario, Canada, on the Trent Canal system.
  • keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
  • leland haywardLeland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
  • longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • make time with — to succeed in attracting or having an affair with (a person)
  • matthew walker — a knot formed on the end of a rope by partly unlaying the strands and tying them in a certain way.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • mowing machine — a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
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