11-letter words containing w, e, i, g, h
- strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
- swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
- tangle with — get involved with
- troy weight — a system of weights in use for precious metals and gems (formerly also for bread, grain, etc.): 24 grains = 1 pennyweight (1.555 grams); 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (31.103 grams); 12 ounces = 1 pound (0.373 kilogram). The grain, ounce, and pound are the same as in apothecaries' weight, the grain alone being the same as in avoirdupois weight. The troy pound is no longer a standard weight in Great Britain.
- twi-nighter — a twi-night doubleheader.
- under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
- underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
- unweighting — the action of minimizing the pressure of body weight on a ski before a turn by briefly bending down or straightening up
- unwithering — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- waggishness — Waggish behaviour.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- water right — the right to make use of the water from a particular stream, lake, or irrigation canal.
- weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
- weighbridge — a platform scale that stands flush with a road and is used for weighing trucks, livestock, etc.
- weight belt — a belt worn to control a diver's buoyancy under water, on which slotted lead weights can be slipped according to the diver's body size and weight and having a quick-release buckle for emergency discarding.
- weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
- weight loss — slimming
- weight room — weight-training gym
- weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
- wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
- wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
- whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
- whimperings — Plural form of whimpering.
- whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.
- white goods — household appliances
- white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
- white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
- white night — a sleepless night.
- 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-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- wrenchingly — In a wrenching manner; with a sudden jerk or emotional shock.
- zwischenzug — a tactical move interpolated into an exchange or series of exchanges to improve the outcome