13-letter words containing t, o, h, w
- west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- what about/of — You use what about or what of when you introduce a new topic or a point which seems relevant to a previous remark.
- what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- what you will — whatever you like
- what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
- whether or no — under any circumstances
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- white melilot — a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- 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.
- whithersoever — Wherever.
- whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- who-does-what — (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by different trade unions
- whole brother — a brother whose parents are the same as one's own.
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- 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 knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- without doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- worthlessness — The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
- writ of right — English Law. a writ directed to a person who presided over a feudal court, directing him to render justice between his vassals in a dispute as to ownership of land: usually led to a trial in a royal court if feudal ownership was involved.
- yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify