12-letter words containing p, h, i, l
- walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- 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.
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
- whippoorwill — a nocturnal North American nightjar, Caprimulgus vociferus, having a variegated plumage of gray, black, white, and tawny.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- 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.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler