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13-letter words containing t, i, h, w

  • whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white crappie — See under crappie.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • white feather — a symbol of cowardice.
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
  • white melilot — a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.
  • white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
  • white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
  • white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
  • white truffle — an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.
  • white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
  • white vitriol — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
  • white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
  • white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
  • whithersoever — Wherever.
  • whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
  • wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
  • wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
  • wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
  • wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
  • wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
  • winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
  • winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
  • witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
  • witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
  • with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
  • 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 impunity — unpunished
  • with interest — plus money owed
  • with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
  • with pleasure — gladly, willingly
  • with the best — as ably as the most able
  • withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
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