13-letter words containing w, a, l, h
- the last word — final retort
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wah-wah pedal — a foot pedal attached to an electronic musical instrument, used to create a sound that simulates the sound made by a trumpet, cornet, etc, when the bell is alternately covered and uncovered
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walk out with — to court or be courted by
- walk the walk — do as one preaches or boasts of doing
- walk with god — to lead a godly, morally upright life
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- warmheartedly — Alternative form of warm-heartedly.
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
- whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
- what the hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- what you will — whatever you like
- wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
- whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
- 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 slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- 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.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
- 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.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- 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.