10-letter words containing n, i, s, h
- upheapings — acts or instances of heaping up
- upsmanship — one-upmanship.
- urosthenic — having a tail which drives movement of the body
- vanishment — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- vanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vanquisher — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- varnishing — the skill or technique of varnishing something
- vinegarish — resembling vinegar, as in sourness or acidity: a vinegarish odor; a vinegarish disposition.
- visiophone — a videophone
- walsingham — Sir Francis, c1530–90, English statesman: secretary of state 1573–90.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- washbasins — Plural form of washbasin.
- washing-up — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- 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.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.
- wheeziness — The state of being wheezy.
- whimsiness — the quality of being whimsy
- whip snake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whippiness — flexibility
- whipsawing — Present participle of whipsaw.
- whirlwinds — Plural form of whirlwind.
- whiskering — (fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a
- whispering — the mode of utterance, or the voice, of a person who whispers: to speak in a whisper.
- whitsunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- whittlings — the act of a person who whittles.
- whizzbangs — Plural form of whizzbang.
- whodunnits — Plural form of whodunnit.
- wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
- winchester — (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
- wind chest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
- 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.
- wind shelf — smoke shelf.
- windchimes — Plural form of windchime.
- windhovers — Plural form of windhover.
- windshield — a shield of glass, in one or more sections, projecting above and across the dashboard of an automobile.
- withinside — (intransitive preposition, archaic) Within, inside.
- withstands — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- witnesseth — Archaic third-person singular form of witness.
- womanishly — In a womanish way.
- worshiping — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- worthiness — having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.
- wrathiness — the state of being very angry
- wristphone — A mobile phone that is built into a wristwatch.
- wutai shan — a mountain range in NE China, rising to 10,033 feet (3058 meters).
- xanthopsia — A visual defect, a form of chromatopsia in which everything appears yellow.
- xenophiles — Plural form of xenophile.
- xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms