12-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- xanthochroia — a condition causing yellow patches on the skin similar to xanthoma
- xanthochroid — of, relating to, or designating races having light-coloured hair and a pale complexion
- xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals