13-letter words containing o, n, h
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
- weather-bound — delayed or shut in by bad weather.
- weatherperson — a meteorologist or weathercaster.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- whether or no — under any circumstances
- whip scorpion — 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.
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wholesomeness — The state of being wholesome.
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- wishbone boom — a boom on a sailboard having two arms that are joined at the mast and at the foot of the sail. The windsurfer holds onto it for support and to steer the sailboard
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- wood shavings — shavings of wood, as found in a carpenter's workshop etc
- wooden-headed — thick-headed, dull; stupid.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- word of honor — a pledge of one's honor that a specified condition, bargain, etc., will be fulfilled; oath; promise.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- worthlessness — The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
- xanthochroism — a condition in certain animals, esp aquarium goldfish, in which all skin pigments other than yellow and orange disappear
- xanthochroous — light-skinned and fair-haired
- xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron
- yellowishness — The property of having a slight or moderate shade of yellow, usually tinged with other colours.
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
- zhao kuangyin — Chao K'uang-yin.
- zinc chloride — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous solid, ZnCl 2 , used chiefly as a wood preservative, as a disinfectant and antiseptic, and in the manufacture of vulcanized fiber, parchment paper, and soldering fluxes.
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.
- zone-leaching — A horizon.
- zooxanthellae — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.
- zymotechnical — relating to the technology of fermentation