11-letter words containing n, o, w, h
- honey wagon — a wagon or truck for collecting and carrying excrement or manure.
- honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
- hoodwinking — Present participle of hoodwink.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
- house owner — A house owner is a person who owns a house.
- howe, denis — Denis Howe
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- i know what — I have an idea
- in the know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
- ithiel town — Ithiel [ith-ee-uh l] /ˈɪθ i əl/ (Show IPA), 1784–1844, U.S. architect.
- kwangchowan — Older Spelling. Guangzhouwan.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
- lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
- new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
- new thought — a system of doctrine and practice originating in the 19th century and stressing the power of thought to control physical and mental events.
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
- northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
- on the town — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- on the wane — If something is on the wane, it is becoming weaker or less.
- on the wind — as near as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- on the wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
- outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- sash window — A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.
- scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- shop window — storefront display
- shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
- show around — guide round a new place
- show window — a display window in a store.
- shower unit — fitted shower