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11-letter words containing e, r, w, h, i

  • kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
  • kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
  • large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • littleworth — worthless; of little value
  • lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
  • lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
  • paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • riverworthy — (of a boat) able to cross or sail a river safely
  • rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
  • schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • sheriffwick — shrievalty.
  • shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
  • sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • six-wheeler — a truck or other vehicle having six wheels.
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
  • sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
  • swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • therewithal — together with that; in addition to that.
  • therewithin — in or within that
  • third wheel — odd person out among three people
  • thitherward — Also, thitherward [thith -er-werd, th ith -] /ˈθɪð ər wərd, ˈðɪð-/ (Show IPA), thitherwards. to or toward that place or point; there.
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • to the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
  • trifle with — treat frivolously
  • trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
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