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12-letter words containing w, e, t, h, r

  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • weathertight — secure against wind, rain, etc.
  • weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
  • weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
  • weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
  • weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
  • well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
  • west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
  • whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • wherethrough — through which; because of
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
  • white ginger — a tall plant, Hedychium coronarium, of the ginger family, native to tropical Asia, having long, broad leaves and showy, fragrant white flowers.
  • white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
  • white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white matter — nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color. Compare gray matter (def 1).
  • white pepper — a condiment prepared from the husked dried berries of the pepper plant, used either whole or ground.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white rabbit — a person who is in a hurry and complaining of being late, like the White Rabbit character in the children's story 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
  • white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
  • white russia — Belorussia
  • 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 turnip — the turnip, Brassica rapa.
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
  • white-haired — having hair that is white.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • whitethroats — Plural form of whitethroat.
  • whitherwards — toward what or which place
  • whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • whortleberry — the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
  • wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
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