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11-letter words containing h, a, w, i, n

  • snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • the haywain — a famous picture by John Constable
  • thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
  • waggishness — Waggish behaviour.
  • wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
  • wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
  • warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
  • 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 night — the last night of the year, observed in a watch meeting.
  • watchmaking — The making (and repairing) of watches.
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
  • wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wet machine — a machine for dewatering pulp.
  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
  • whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
  • wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
  • wind-shaken — affected by windshake.
  • windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.
  • window sash — the frame holding the pane of a window.
  • with a bang — begin, end: in a dramatic way
  • with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • withdrawing — Present participle of withdraw.
  • within call — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
  • withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
  • workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
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