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

  • 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
  • water right — the right to make use of the water from a particular stream, lake, or irrigation canal.
  • 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.
  • wavy-haired — having wavy hair
  • wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
  • weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
  • weatherized — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherize.
  • weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
  • 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.
  • what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
  • whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
  • wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
  • wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
  • wheelchairs — Plural form of wheelchair.
  • wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
  • whidah bird — any of various predominantly black African weaverbirds of the genus Vidua and related genera, the males of which grow very long tail feathers in the breeding season
  • whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
  • whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • 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 alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • 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).
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
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