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11-letter words containing n, a, t, h, e

  • up the ante — to increase the costs, risks, or considerations involved in taking an action or reaching a conclusion
  • van vechtenCarl, 1880–1964, U.S. author.
  • water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
  • wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
  • wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • weathervane — A revolving pointer to show the direction of the wind, typically mounted on top of a building.
  • weatherworn — weather-beaten.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • werepanther — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between panther and human form.
  • west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wet machine — a machine for dewatering pulp.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.
  • with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
  • woman-hater — a person, especially a man, who dislikes women; misogynist.
  • xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.
  • xeranthemum — any of a Mediterranean genus of plants having flower heads that are dry and retain their colour and shape for years: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • xiphisterna — Plural form of xiphisternum.
  • yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
  • yet another — (jargon)   (YA-, after Unix's yacc - Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many. In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN.
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