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13-letter words containing w, e, i, g, h

  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
  • together with — combined with
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • twenty-eighth — next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • weigh in with — to introduce or contribute (an idea or opinion) to a discussion, argument, etc.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • weightlifters — Plural form of weightlifter.
  • weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
  • weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • welterweights — Plural form of welterweight.
  • when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
  • white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
  • white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
  • white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
  • willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
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