11-letter words containing a, w, h
- twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
- twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
- under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unweathered — not weathered; not changed by exposure to the weather
- up the wall — 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.
- vichy water — a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, containing sodium bicarbonate, other alkaline salts, etc., used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, etc.
- view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- waggishness — Waggish behaviour.
- wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
- walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
- wang an shi — 1021–86, Chinese statesman and writer: remembered for his economic reforms, known as the New Policies (1069–76)
- warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
- ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
- warmhearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- warriorhood — The state of being a warrior.
- washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- waspishness — The quality of being waspish.
- watch chain — a chain, frequently of gold or silver, attached to a pocket watch, serving as an ornament and, when passed through a buttonhole in the vest, as a guard against loss or theft of the watch.
- watch guard — a short chain, cord, or ribbon for securing a watch when worn on the person.
- watch night — the last night of the year, observed in a watch meeting.
- watch-glass — a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
- watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchmaking — The making (and repairing) of watches.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
- watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
- water right — the right to make use of the water from a particular stream, lake, or irrigation canal.
- water shrew — either of two small amphibious shrews, Neomys fodiens (European water shrew) or N. anomalus (Mediterranean water shrew), having a dark pelage with paler underparts
- water wheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- water witch — a person who claims the ability to detect water underground by means of a divining rod
- water-witch — to practice water witching; work as a water witch.
- waterthrush — A thrushlike North American warbler related to the ovenbird, found near woodland streams and swamps.
- wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.