12-letter words containing a, w, h
- chair-warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- chew the rag — to converse idly; chat
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crowned head — a monarch
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- dual highway — divided highway.
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
- fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
- get anywhere — to be successful