12-letter words containing w, e, i, h
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- help on with — If you help someone on with an item of clothing, you help them put it on.
- hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
- highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
- hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- in line with — conforming to
- in the white — (of wood or furniture) left unpainted or unvarnished
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- interwreathe — To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- keep in with — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep up with — go as fast
- killer whale — any of several predatory dolphins, especially the black-and-white Orcinus orca, found in all seas.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
- light-weight — light displacement.
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- machine word — word (def 10).