9-letter words containing w, e, t, h, r
- the sword — violence, warfare
- the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- the worst — the least good or most inferior person, thing, or part in a group, narrative, etc
- thereaway — in that direction; thereabouts
- therewith — with that.
- three-way — providing connections to three routes from a central point
- throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
- throwster — a person who throws silk or synthetic filaments.
- tightwire — tightrope (def 1).
- two-horse — If you describe a contest as a two-horse race, you mean that only two of the people or things taking part have any chance of winning.
- unwreathe — to bring out of a wreathed condition; untwist; untwine.
- waghalter — a person likely to be hanged
- war chest — money set aside or scheduled for a particular purpose or activity, as for a political campaign or organizational drive.
- water ash — hoptree.
- water hen — moorhen (def 1).
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- waterhead — the source of a river or stream.
- waterhole — A depression in which water collects, especially one from which animals regularly drink.
- watershed — Chiefly British. the ridge or crest line dividing two drainage areas; water parting; divide.
- wealthier — Comparative form of wealthy.
- wear thin — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weathered — seasoned or otherwise affected by exposure to the weather.
- weatherly — (of a ship or boat) making very little leeway when close-hauled.
- wehrmacht — the German armed forces of the years prior to and during World War II.
- weightier — Comparative form of weighty.
- wentworth — Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford, 1st Earl of.
- wethering — Present participle of wether.
- whateffer — Eye dialect of whatever.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- wheatgerm — Wheatgerm is the middle part of a grain of wheat which is rich in vitamins and is often added to other food.
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- whereinto — Into which.
- whereunto — (archaic or formal, interrogative) unto what; to what purpose.
- wherewith — Rare. wherewithal.
- whistlers — Plural form of whistler.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- white fir — a tall, narrow fir, Abies concolor, of western North America, yielding a soft wood used for lumber, pulp, boxes, etc.
- white rat — an albino variety of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, used in biological experiments.
- white rot — a decay of wood caused by lignase-producing fungi, especially Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
- whiteacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from blackacre).
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whiteners — Plural form of whitener.
- whiteware — white earthenware
- whithered — Simple past tense and past participle of whither.
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.
- whittawer — a person who converts skins into white leather; a tawer
- wiltshire — Also, Wilts [wilts] /wɪlts/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 1345 sq. mi. (3485 sq. km). County seat: Salisbury.
- winterish — Characteristic of winter.
- wirephoto — a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire. a photograph so transmitted.
- withe rod — either of two North American viburnums, Viburnum cassinoides or V. nudum, having tough, osierlike shoots.