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.