11-letter words containing w, a, s, h
- wang an shi — 1021–86, Chinese statesman and writer: remembered for his economic reforms, known as the New Policies (1069–76)
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- waspishness — The quality of being waspish.
- watch-glass — a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
- watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- 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
- waterthrush — A thrushlike North American warbler related to the ovenbird, found near woodland streams and swamps.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- weathercast — a forecast of weather conditions, especially on radio or television.
- weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
- weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
- weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
- well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
- well-shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- welsh vault — underpitch vault.
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
- west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- whale shark — a tropical shark, Rhincodon typus, ranging in size from 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 meters), having small teeth and a sievelike structure over its gills for catching plankton.
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
- wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
- what's more — in addition
- what's what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- wheat sheaf — a sheaf of wheat
- wheelchairs — Plural form of wheelchair.
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
- white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
- white shark — great white shark.
- white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
- white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.