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12-letter words containing o, h, w, e, l

  • on the whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
  • otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
  • overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • overwithhold — to withhold too much.
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pelton wheel — a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the new look — a fashion in women's clothes introduced in 1947, characterized by long full skirts
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • to hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • well-clothed — to dress; attire.
  • well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
  • well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
  • wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white willow — a willow tree, Salix alba, of Europe and Asia having leaves with pale undersides
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • 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 sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • whole-hogger — a person who is whole-heartedly committed to something
  • whole-length — extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
  • whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
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