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

  • well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
  • 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.
  • west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
  • wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
  • wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
  • wherethrough — through which; because of
  • whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white coffee — coffee: with milk
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • 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 potato — potato (def 1).
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • white willow — a willow tree, Salix alba, of Europe and Asia having leaves with pale undersides
  • 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-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.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
  • 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.
  • whole-hogger — a person who is whole-heartedly committed to something
  • whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
  • whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
  • whore-monger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
  • whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
  • whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
  • wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
  • window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
  • winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
  • wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
  • witch hobble — the hobblebush.
  • withersoever — To wherever, to anywhere.
  • withholdment — the act of withholding
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
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