12-letter words containing s, g, h, w
- straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
- straightways — in a direct course
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
- washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
- weatherglass — any of various instruments, as a barometer or a hygroscope, designed to indicate the state of the atmosphere.
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
- whereagainst — against which
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- white ensign — the British naval ensign, consisting of the red cross of St. George on a white field, with the British union occupying the upper quarter along the hoist.
- whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- wishing well — a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withstanding — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- wood's light — ultraviolet light filtered through glass containing nickel oxide, used in detecting forgeries, in detecting microbes in hair, etc.
- 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
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler