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

  • headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
  • healthwise — With regard to health.
  • heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
  • heath wren — either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia, Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta, noted for their song and their powers of mimicry
  • high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
  • hitherward — hither.
  • hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
  • holy water — water blessed by a priest.
  • hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
  • in the raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
  • in the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • keep watch — observe, maintain a vigil
  • lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
  • lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
  • lengthways — Lengthwise.
  • light wave — the movement of light conceptualized as a wave, defined by such properties as reflection, refraction, and dispersion
  • lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.
  • lukewarmth — lukewarmness
  • makeweight — something put in a scale to complete a required weight.
  • mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
  • nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
  • netherward — bottom-most, lowest
  • on the way — en route
  • overthwart — to lie across
  • paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
  • rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
  • restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
  • shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
  • short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shower tea — kitchen tea.
  • soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
  • sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
  • sweathouse — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
  • sweetheart — either of a pair of lovers in relation to the other.
  • switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
  • tawheowheo — a broadleaved evergreen, Quintinia serrata, of New Zealand's North Island
  • tegakwitha — Tekakwitha
  • tekakwitha — Kateri [kah-tuh-ree] /ˈkɑ tə ri/ (Show IPA), or Catherine, 1656–80, North American Indian ascetic; convert to Roman Catholicism.
  • the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
  • theta wave — any of the brain waves constituting theta rhythm.
  • threadworm — any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.
  • tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
  • trade show — show (def 22).
  • tweetheart — a sweetheart on the Twitter website
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