12-letter words containing w, h, a, t
- go hard with — to cause pain or difficulty to (someone)
- grain growth — a tendency of certain grains to grow and absorb others when heated under certain conditions.
- great-nephew — a son of one's nephew or niece; grandnephew.
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hand-written — to write (something) by hand.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- have it away — to have sexual intercourse
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hit the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
- interwreathe — To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
- inward light — Inner Light.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- lead the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
- macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
- matthew quay — Matthew Stanley, 1833–1904, U.S. politician: senator 1887–99, 1901–4.
- meet halfway — to compromise with
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- now and then — occasionally
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- on the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
- on the watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- pave the way — be a pioneer
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.