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11-letter words containing w, h, a, t, e

  • weathervane — A revolving pointer to show the direction of the wind, typically mounted on top of a building.
  • weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
  • weatherworn — weather-beaten.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • well-taught — simple past tense and past participle of teach.
  • welsh vault — underpitch vault.
  • welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
  • werepanther — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between panther and human form.
  • west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wet machine — a machine for dewatering pulp.
  • whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whale watch — trip to observe sea mammals
  • wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
  • what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
  • what matter — what does it matter?
  • what's more — in addition
  • whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
  • wheat berry — the whole kernel of wheat, sometimes cracked or ground and used as a cereal or cooked food, or made into bread.
  • wheat bread — a type of bread that consists of a mixture of enriched white flour and whole-wheat flour.
  • wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
  • wheat sheaf — a sheaf of wheat
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • whereabouts — about where? where?
  • wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
  • white toast — toasted white bread
  • white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
  • white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
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