9-letter words containing h, o, w, e
- stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
- supershow — an exceptional show
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
- swinehood — the quality or condition of a swine
- tent show — an exhibition or performance, especially a circus, presented in a tent.
- the crowd — the common people; the masses
- the gower — a peninsula in S Wales, in Swansea county on the Bristol Channel: mainly agricultural with several resorts
- the sword — violence, warfare
- the wagon — Charles's Wain
- the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
- the woman — feminine nature or feelings
- the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- the worst — the least good or most inferior person, thing, or part in a group, narrative, etc
- the-downs — a range of low ridges in S and SW England.
- throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
- throwster — a person who throws silk or synthetic filaments.
- towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
- towheaded — a head of very light blond, almost white hair.
- townhouse — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- townshend — Charles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
- two-horse — If you describe a contest as a two-horse race, you mean that only two of the people or things taking part have any chance of winning.
- two-phase — diphase.
- war horse — a horse used in war; charger.
- war-horse — a horse used in war; charger.
- warehouse — a building, or a part of one, for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc.
- warhorses — Plural form of warhorse.
- wash over — water: cover
- washhouse — A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- waterhole — A depression in which water collects, especially one from which animals regularly drink.
- wave moth — any of several small geometrid moths with wavy markings, such as the common wave (Deilinia exanthemata), with grey-marked wings, and the lighter common white wave (D. pusaria)
- webphones — Plural form of webphone.
- wee hours — the first few hours after midnight
- weep hole — a hole in a sill, retaining wall, or the like for draining off accumulated moisture, as from condensation or seepage.
- weigh out — If you weigh something out, you measure a certain weight of it in order to make sure that you have the correct amount.
- weisshorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Alps. 14,804 feet (4512 meters).
- well-hole — the shaft of a well.
- well-shod — a simple past tense and past participle of shoe.
- wellhouse — wellhead (def 2).
- welsh cob — any of a breed of medium-sized riding horse, developed in Wales, with a thickset body and relatively short legs
- wentworth — Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford, 1st Earl of.
- west goth — a Visigoth.
- whale oil — oil rendered from whale blubber, formerly widely used as a fuel for lamps and for making soap and candles.
- whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
- whalebone — an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales, and forming a series of thin, parallel plates on each side of the palate; baleen.
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- wheelwork — a train of gears, as in a timepiece.
- wherefore — Archaic. for what? why?
- wherefrom — (archaic) from which.