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12-letter words containing i, n, t, h

  • unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
  • unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
  • unrightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
  • unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
  • urban blight — deterioration of property in centre of city
  • varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
  • vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
  • virgin birth — Theology. the doctrine or dogma that, by the miraculous agency of God, the birth of Christ did not impair or prejudice the virginity of Mary. Compare Immaculate Conception.
  • viscountship — the position of being a viscount
  • vision cloth — a curtain with an inset scrim behind which a lighted scene appears, as a vision, dream, or the like.
  • vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
  • von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
  • voting booth — polling kiosk
  • warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
  • washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
  • washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
  • watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
  • waterishness — the state of being waterish
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
  • wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
  • weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
  • weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
  • whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • whipping top — a spinning top that is set going by striking it with a toy whip so that the lash curls around it before pulling it away quickly
  • white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • white ensign — the British naval ensign, consisting of the red cross of St. George on a white field, with the British union occupying the upper quarter along the hoist.
  • white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
  • white ginger — a tall plant, Hedychium coronarium, of the ginger family, native to tropical Asia, having long, broad leaves and showy, fragrant white flowers.
  • white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
  • white knight — a hero who comes to the rescue.
  • white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
  • white walnut — butternut (def 1).
  • 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.
  • whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
  • whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
  • whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • 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
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • winter haven — a city in central Florida.
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