11-letter words containing h, o, w
- to the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
- trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
- 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.
- trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- 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.
- unwithstood — not opposed or resisted; not withstood
- 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.
- wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warriorhood — The state of being a warrior.
- 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.