9-letter words containing t, w, o, h
- towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
- towheaded — a head of very light blond, almost white hair.
- town hall — a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.
- townhouse — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- townshend — Charles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
- two-horse — If you describe a contest as a two-horse race, you mean that only two of the people or things taking part have any chance of winning.
- two-phase — diphase.
- two-tooth — a sheep between one and two years old with two permanent incisor teeth
- unwrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- upwrought — wrought up; agitated
- wadsworth — a city in N Ohio.
- walkathon — a long-distance walking race for testing endurance.
- warmouths — Plural form of warmouth.
- washcloth — a small cloth for washing one's face or body.
- watch for — be vigilant for, careful of
- watch out — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchouts — the act of looking out for or anticipating something; lookout: Keep a watchout for dishonest behavior.
- watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- waterhole — A depression in which water collects, especially one from which animals regularly drink.
- watt-hour — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt operating for one hour, equivalent to 3600 joules. Abbreviation: Wh.
- wave moth — any of several small geometrid moths with wavy markings, such as the common wave (Deilinia exanthemata), with grey-marked wings, and the lighter common white wave (D. pusaria)
- weigh out — If you weigh something out, you measure a certain weight of it in order to make sure that you have the correct amount.
- wentworth — Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford, 1st Earl of.
- west goth — a Visigoth.
- whack out — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- whereinto — Into which.
- whereunto — (archaic or formal, interrogative) unto what; to what purpose.
- whetstone — a stone for sharpening cutlery or tools by friction.
- whinstone — Chiefly British. any of the dark-colored, fine-grained rocks, especially igneous rocks, as dolerite and basalt.
- whipstock — the handle of a whip.
- white fox — Arctic fox.
- white oak — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- white out — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- white owl — snowy owl
- white rot — a decay of wood caused by lignase-producing fungi, especially Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
- white-hot — extremely hot.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
- whitecoat — a baby seal, usually less than four weeks old and still having its initial white fur.
- whitecomb — a fungal disease infecting the combs of certain fowls
- whiteouts — Plural form of whiteout.
- whitewood — any of numerous trees, as the tulip tree or the linden, yielding a white or light-colored wood.
- whitworth — Kathrynne Ann ("Kathy") born 1939, U.S. golfer.
- whodunits — Plural form of whodunit.
- whodunnit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- wholetime — full-time.
- wholistic — holism.
- windthrow — the uprooting of trees by wind