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12-letter words containing h, e, l, r, w

  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • prayer wheel — a wheel or cylinder inscribed with or containing prayers, used chiefly by Buddhists of Tibet.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • sternwheeler — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
  • underwhelmed — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
  • wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
  • wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
  • weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
  • weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
  • weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
  • well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
  • whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
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