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10-letter words containing w, e, h, o

  • pennyworth — as much as may be bought for a penny.
  • phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
  • ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
  • poor white — a member of a class of white people, especially of the southern U.S., having low social status and little or no money, property, or education. See also white trash.
  • powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
  • raree show — peep show.
  • rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
  • red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
  • restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
  • rhone wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhone River valley, between Lyons and the Mediterranean.
  • rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
  • screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
  • self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • shadowless — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
  • shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • shot tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
  • show a leg — to get up in the morning
  • show house — theater (def 1).
  • show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
  • shower gel — liquid soap product
  • shower tea — kitchen tea.
  • showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • showerless — without showers; rain-free
  • shrew mole — a grayish-black mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, of the western coast of the U.S. and Canada, that grows to a length of about 3 inches (7.6 cm).
  • shrewmouse — a shrew.
  • slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
  • snow-white — white as snow.
  • soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
  • somewhence — from somewhere
  • somewheres — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
  • south-west — The south-west is the direction which is halfway between south and west.
  • sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
  • sweathouse — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • sweet shop — a store that sells candy.
  • sweet-shop — a store that sells candy.
  • switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
  • switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
  • tawheowheo — a broadleaved evergreen, Quintinia serrata, of New Zealand's North Island
  • the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
  • threadworm — any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.
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