9-letter words containing w, a, n, h
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hwang hai — Older Spelling. Yellow Sea.
- inwreathe — enwreathe.
- j. wanhal — Johann Baptist, Vanhal, Jan Křtitel.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- land with — to give to, so as to put in difficulties; cause to be burdened with
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- meanwhile — meantime.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- new haven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- newchwang — Niuzhuang.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- nighthawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- nightwear — night clothes.
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- showmanly — characteristic of a showman
- stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- the swanz — the women's international soccer team of New Zealand
- the wagon — Charles's Wain
- the woman — feminine nature or feelings
- thwarting — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
- 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.
- unwatched — 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.
- unwealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- unwreathe — to bring out of a wreathed condition; untwist; untwine.
- walachian — of or relating to the former SE European principality of Walachia (now part of Romania) or its inhabitants
- walcheren — an island in SW Netherlands: part of Zeeland province. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- walkathon — a long-distance walking race for testing endurance.
- wall-hung — designed to be hung from or attached to a wall: a wall-hung medicine cabinet for the bathroom.
- wanchancy — unlucky