10-letter words containing i, n, h, a
- washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- watchnight — Alternative form of watch night.
- water-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
- weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- whip snake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whipsawing — Present participle of whipsaw.
- whitmonday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- whitsunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- whizz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbangs — Plural form of whizzbang.
- wholegrain — A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
- wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
- wilhelmina — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
- willingham — Calder, 1922–95, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- wind shaft — the shaft driven by the sails of a windmill.
- wind shake — Also called anemosis. a flaw in wood supposed to be caused by the action of strong winds upon the trunk of the tree.
- wind shear — the rate at which wind velocity changes from point to point in a given direction.
- wing chair — a large upholstered chair having a back with wings.
- withstands — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- womanishly — In a womanish way.
- wrathiness — the state of being very angry
- wutai shan — a mountain range in NE China, rising to 10,033 feet (3058 meters).
- xanthation — (chemistry) Conversion into a xanthate.
- xanthopsia — A visual defect, a form of chromatopsia in which everything appears yellow.
- xenophilia — an attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xenophobia — fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers: Xenophobia and nationalism can be seen as a reaction to the rise of globalization.
- xiphoidian — (anatomy, rare) xiphoid.
- xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
- yan xishan — Yen Hsi-shan.
- yesmanship — An atmosphere in which people claim to agree with leadership for political reasons, even when they don't actually agree with leadership.
- zeaxanthin — A carotenoid present in the retina of the eye and in many plants, used as a food additive and supplement.
- zhou enlai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1949–76.
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.