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11-letter words containing h, o, w, e

  • troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
  • tweet tooth — a person who has a strong craving to post a tweet on the Twitter website
  • twelvemonth — a year.
  • two-wheeler — a vehicle, especially a bicycle, having two wheels: The boy changed his tricycle for a two-wheeler.
  • un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
  • view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
  • view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
  • vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
  • vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
  • vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
  • warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
  • washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
  • washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
  • watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
  • watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
  • wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
  • weathercoat — Also, weathercoating. a weatherproof coating, applied especially to the exterior of a building.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • weatherford — a town in N Texas.
  • weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
  • weatherworn — weather-beaten.
  • web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
  • weight loss — slimming
  • weight room — weight-training gym
  • well enough — sufficiently
  • well-chosen — chosen with care, as for suitability or preciseness: He entered at a well-chosen moment.
  • well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
  • welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
  • welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
  • wendy house — a child's playhouse.
  • werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
  • what's more — in addition
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
  • wheel cover — a fancy cover for the wheels of motor vehicles: larger than a hubcap
  • wheel horse — Also called wheeler. a horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
  • wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
  • wheelhouses — Plural form of wheelhouse.
  • whenceforth — from which time or place forward
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