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10-letter words containing t, i, h, w, a

  • switchback — a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
  • switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
  • switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • tegakwitha — Tekakwitha
  • tekakwitha — Kateri [kah-tuh-ree] /ˈkɑ tə ri/ (Show IPA), or Catherine, 1656–80, North American Indian ascetic; convert to Roman Catholicism.
  • the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
  • tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
  • twickenham — a former borough, now part of Richmond upon Thames, in SE England.
  • wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
  • wainwright — Jonathan Mayhew [mey-hyoo] /ˈmeɪ hyu/ (Show IPA), 1883–1953, U.S. general.
  • waist-high — extending as high as the waist: a waist-high hedge.
  • waistcloth — a loincloth.
  • waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
  • wall light — lamp set into or hung from a wall
  • wanthriven — poorly developed or undersized
  • ward eight — a mixed drink containing whiskey, lemon juice, grenadine, and often soda water, served in a tall glass with crushed ice and sometimes garnished with an orange slice and a cherry.
  • warfighter — A soldier in combat.
  • washateria — a launderette.
  • washeteria — washateria.
  • washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
  • watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
  • watchnight — Alternative form of watch night.
  • water-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
  • watertight — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
  • wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
  • weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
  • weatherize — to make (a house or other building) secure against cold or stormy weather, as by adding insulation, siding, and storm windows.
  • weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
  • westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
  • wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
  • whip graft — a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and securing them by tying or taping.
  • whip-smart — extremely clever
  • whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
  • whipstalls — Plural form of whipstall.
  • whiptailed — having a long slender tail
  • whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.
  • whirlblast — a blast of wind
  • white amur — grass carp
  • white area — an area of land for which no specific planning proposal has been adopted
  • white bass — an edible freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage, silvery with yellow below and having the sides streaked with blackish lines.
  • white bear — polar bear.
  • white cake — a cake that is pale in color because its batter contains the whites of eggs but no yolks
  • white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
  • white coat — a white coat worn over everyday clothes by a doctor in a hospital or a scientist
  • white crab — ghost crab.
  • white damp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
  • white flag — an all-white banner or piece of cloth, used as a symbol of surrender or truce.
  • white hake — a food fish, Urophycis tenuis, inhabiting marine waters, especially off the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.
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