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11-letter words containing e, p, h, l

  • total depth — Total depth is the downward length of a well, measured by the length of pipe which is needed to reach the bottom.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • toxophilite — a devotee of archery; archer.
  • trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
  • unhelpfully — in a manner that does not help
  • unhopefully — in an unhopeful manner
  • unpublished — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • up the pole — slightly mad
  • 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.
  • up-helly-aa — a midwinter festival held in January in Shetland; originally a fire festival, but now a celebration of Shetland's Norse heritage, involving the ceremonial burning of a newly built Viking ship
  • upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
  • upholstress — a female upholsterer
  • well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
  • welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whippletree — whiffletree.
  • whistle pig — a woodchuck.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
  • xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
  • xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
  • xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
  • zoocephalic — (of gods, mythological beings, etc) with the head of an animal
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