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12-letter words containing w, e, s, t, h, i

  • weather-wise — skillful in predicting weather.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
  • weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
  • west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
  • wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
  • wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
  • whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white ensign — the British naval ensign, consisting of the red cross of St. George on a white field, with the British union occupying the upper quarter along the hoist.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white russia — Belorussia
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
  • white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white-washed — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
  • whitherwards — toward what or which place
  • whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
  • wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
  • with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
  • witheredness — The state of being withered.
  • withersoever — To wherever, to anywhere.
  • wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
  • wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
  • wordsmithery — the craft or skill of a wordsmith
  • wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.
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