12-letter words containing n, o, w, h
- 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.
- wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- whipping boy — a person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistake; scapegoat.
- 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
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- 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.
- whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
- whomping big — impressively large
- whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
- whore-monger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- 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
- window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withholdment — the act of withholding
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
- womanishness — The state or condition of being womanish.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- wooden horse — Trojan horse (def 1).
- woodshedding — Present participle of woodshed.
- wordsmithing — Present participle of wordsmith.
- work-sharing — an arrangement whereby one full-time job may be carried out by two people working part time
- wrong-headed — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- wrought iron — a form of iron, almost entirely free of carbon and having a fibrous structure including a uniformly distributed slag content, that is readily forged and welded.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- you-know-who — a person whose name one does not want to say, but who is known to the person to whom one is speaking