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11-letter words containing t, w, e, o, h

  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
  • to the wide — completely
  • to the wire — If something goes to the wire, it continues until the last possible moment.
  • trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
  • troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
  • tweet tooth — a person who has a strong craving to post a tweet on the Twitter website
  • twelvemonth — a year.
  • two-wheeler — a vehicle, especially a bicycle, having two wheels: The boy changed his tricycle for a two-wheeler.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
  • watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
  • watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
  • wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
  • weathercoat — Also, weathercoating. a weatherproof coating, applied especially to the exterior of a building.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • weatherford — a town in N Texas.
  • weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
  • weatherworn — weather-beaten.
  • web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
  • weight loss — slimming
  • weight room — weight-training gym
  • well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • what's more — in addition
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • whenceforth — from which time or place forward
  • whereabouts — about where? where?
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white goods — household appliances
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
  • white sound — white noise.
  • white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
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