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

  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wet machine — a machine for dewatering pulp.
  • what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
  • whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
  • wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
  • wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
  • wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
  • whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
  • white toast — toasted white bread
  • white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
  • white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
  • white water — fast-moving foamy water
  • white wavey — See under wavey.
  • white whale — beluga (def 2).
  • white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
  • white-faced — having a white or pale face.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
  • whitethroat — any of several small songbirds having a throat that is white, especially an Old World warbler, Sylvia communis.
  • whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
  • whitewasher — One who, or that which, whitewashes.
  • whitewashes — Plural form of whitewash.
  • whitewaters — a town in SE Wisconsin.
  • whitherward — toward what place; in what direction.
  • whitleather — white leather.
  • whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
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