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11-letter words containing w, a, r, e, h

  • overweather — to expose too long to harsh weather
  • paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.
  • schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
  • screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shower head — nozzle of a shower attachment
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • the wharves — the working area of a dock
  • therewithal — together with that; in addition to that.
  • thitherward — Also, thitherward [thith -er-werd, th ith -] /ˈθɪð ər wərd, ˈðɪð-/ (Show IPA), thitherwards. to or toward that place or point; there.
  • 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
  • under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
  • unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • unweathered — not weathered; not changed by exposure to the weather
  • vichy water — a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, containing sodium bicarbonate, other alkaline salts, etc., used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, etc.
  • ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
  • warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • warmhearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
  • washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
  • washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
  • watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
  • watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
  • water brash — heartburn (def 1).
  • water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
  • water right — the right to make use of the water from a particular stream, lake, or irrigation canal.
  • water shrew — either of two small amphibious shrews, Neomys fodiens (European water shrew) or N. anomalus (Mediterranean water shrew), having a dark pelage with paler underparts
  • water wheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
  • water witch — a person who claims the ability to detect water underground by means of a divining rod
  • water-witch — to practice water witching; work as a water witch.
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