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11-letter words containing a, w, h

  • cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
  • chain wheel — sprocket (def 1).
  • chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
  • change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • charityware — careware
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
  • chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
  • china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
  • chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
  • chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
  • chittamwood — American smoke tree.
  • chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
  • chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
  • chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
  • churchwards — in the direction of the church
  • churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
  • claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
  • clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
  • coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
  • czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
  • daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
  • dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
  • dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
  • deganawidah — ("The Peacemaker") flourished 1550–1600, Huron prophet, cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
  • disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
  • dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
  • dishwashing — the act of washing dishes.
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • drag harrow — a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
  • draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
  • durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
  • dwarf shoot — a very thin lateral branch in certain trees.
  • earthenware — pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
  • facial wash — a beauty product which cleanses the skin of the face
  • fairweatherMount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
  • faithworthy — worthy of faith, trustworthy
  • fast-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively rapidly, utilized especially in actions requiring maximum effort of short duration, as sprinting (distinguished from slow-twitch).
  • firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • flake white — lead white.
  • flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
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